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Whipping boy Moderate

Whipping boy has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

someone who is punished for the errors of others

2

Someone punished for the errors of others, historically a boy that was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince.

See Also
whip prince
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
victim
Rhyming Words
boy unboy b boy hoboy amboy batboy it boy femboy manboy carboy cowboy ratboy tomboy pieboy bagboy camboy barboy my boy lowboy oh boy
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