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patsy
noun- a dupe; someone blamed for a crime or accident US, 1903
Perhaps the most famous maybe-patsy of the C20 was Lee Harvey Oswald, who told reporters shortly before being killed: “They’re taking me in because of the fact that I lived in the Soviet Union. I’m only a patsy”. - Supposed somebody took you for a patsy. What would you do? — Mickey Spilane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 26, 1952
- And you know who’s the biggest patsy of all? Me–for letting myself get into this mess! — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 142, 1957
- Come up with an answer and they take the credit... mess things up and you’re the patsy. — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, 1972
- We know they used you as a patsy, a fall guy — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s way, 1975
- At least I still have my money and a designated patsy to take the rap for grand theft. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, 1993
- We needed Brent, Justice! He was our patsy! — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 47, 2001
- in poker, a hand that requires no draw US
Conventionally known as a “pat hand”. - — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 65, 1988
- a half-gallon jar filled with beer NEW ZEALAND
A fairly complicated rhyme: Patsy Riggir is a country music singer, and her last name evokes RIGGER- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 95, 1998
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