Fall guy

noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounOne who is gullible and easily duped.

2.nounIn the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.

3.nounSomeone punished for the error or errors of someone else.

"He is making me a scapegoat."

Synonyms

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