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| scape·goat [ skáyp gt ] |
noun (plural scape·goats) |
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somebody made to take blame: somebody who is made to take the blame for others
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transitive verb (past and past participle scape·goat·ed, present participle scape·goat·ing, 3rd person present singular scape·goats) |
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make somebody take blame: to force somebody to take the blame for others
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| [Mid-16th century. <scape2; because in Jewish ritual the goat, having had the sins of the people symbolically laid on it, was allowed to "escape" into the desert] |
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