Usually means: Scapegoat blamed for others' mistakes.
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  1. fall guy: Merriam-Webster
  2. fall guy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fall guy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fall guy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fall guy: Vocabulary.com
  6. fall-guy: Wordnik
  7. fall guy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fall-guy, fall guy: Wiktionary
  9. fall guy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fall guy: Dictionary.com
  11. Fall Guy (disambiguation), Fall Guy, Fall guy, The Fall Guy (Season The+Fall+Guy+++(Season+++1)), The Fall Guy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fall guy: Rhymezone
  13. fall guy: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fall guy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fall guy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Fall guy: World Wide Words
  17. Fall guy: Phrase Finder
  18. fall guy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fall guy: Encyclopedia

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  1. fall guy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fall guy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fall guy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fall guy)

noun:  (informal, sometimes derogatory) One who is gullible and easily duped.
noun:  (informal, sometimes derogatory) A scapegoat.

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