Usually means: Victim offered for others' benefit.
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  1. sacrificial lamb: Merriam-Webster
  2. sacrificial lamb: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sacrificial lamb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. sacrificial lamb: Wiktionary
  5. Sacrificial lamb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. sacrificial lamb: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Sacrificial lamb: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sacrificial lamb)

noun:  A lamb killed as an offering to the gods.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) A person who is sacrificed (not literally) for the greater good of some cause.

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