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guy

[gahy]

noun

Informal. a man or boy; fellow: He's a nice guy.

Usually, guys. Informal. persons of either sex; people: Could one of you guys help me with this?

Chiefly British Slang. a grotesquely dressed person.

(often initial capital letter) British. a grotesque effigy of Guy Fawkes that is paraded through the streets and burned on Guy Fawkes Day.

verb (used with object)

to jeer at or make fun of; ridicule.

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Idiom

give the guy to, British Slang. to escape from (someone); give (someone) the slip.

Origin:
1800–10; after Guy Fawkes

Can be confused: guise, guys.

Example Sentences

The collocation fall guy has been much in the news lately.

Knowing human resources, they will probably find an excuse to fire the guy.

The fact that my guy has been dead for well over a century was not an impediment.

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The collocation fall guy has been much in the news lately.

Knowing human resources, they will probably find an excuse to fire the guy.

The fact that my guy has been dead for well over a century was not an impediment.

He was invented solely for this movie, to insure that the black guy dies first.

But i give props to this guy he must have been really hardcore.

It's a celebration of tomatoes for sure, but it's also a whopper of a retirement party for maybe the best tomato guy alive.

Bonus points for the fact that since you're in the boys' locker room, the main character is probably a guy.

Taxes at the state, local, and perhaps federal lwvel will rise for the average guy.

But it's really whack because there's this guy whos brothers have gone to jail and dentention centers lots.

Fire both cooks and burns, it's not the fire nature to change but the guy with the match.

Couldn't, and for once this isn't a cliche, happen to a nicer guy.

If this guy had anything, which is highly doubtful, no one will ever believe anything he says again.

Water the little guy until the soil is wet a few inches down.

The guy running the snake down our sewer looks matter-of-fact.

Recently the guy next to me on the plane suddenly uttered an oath and stood up to reveal that his fountain pen had flooded.

Attack the first guy with such viciousness that it gives the rest pause.

Guy texting while bicycling crashes into a tree and suffers head injury.

Yes, this guy solved his town's illegal parking problemswith a tank.

Years later overwhelming evidence comes out that the guy was innocent.

He's the guy who figured out that mosquitoes carried the malaria parasite.

Some women read a brief bio of a guy and his tastes.

Lets all ignore this guy and let engineers and scientist make such decisions.

Or, in this case, when people are scratched by a guy in a white lab coat with a special scratching brush.

On his way to the meeting room, a guy pushing a cart of.

Being a fictional character, he never tortures the wrong guy or extracts false information.

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, is the lead guy hauling.

They should have had the guy who first pirated music.

If anyone volunteers to do it, give the guy a rag and cheer him on.

It is a place blessedly stocked with eateries where a guy can get noteworthy huevos rancheros while his beloved browses chic.

It's that other guy who wastes time, and means you have to wait on line for half an hour to make a two-minute transaction.

The old guy in the corner at a college party can come off as creepy.

But they never talked about how the guy got himself into trouble because he really made some poor decisions.

Maybe the guy should have watched the next video before submitting his claim.

Tom is the go-to guy for irresistible harvest recipes.

Lundquist used to be the guy who poured the drinks for a college president.

Especially the guy with the missing limb, the life obviously is tough and difficult.

And, he is the guy a bug calls when it needs an agent.

There was a guy down the hall who drank every night and so often, that his liver started to ache regularly.

Some day this little guy or girl will be about as tall as a man.

And if the thought of him dispatching bad guy after bad guy gets your.

As soon as he took his clothes off, all the other athletes dropped out because they all knew they couldn't beat this guy.

Steve is the kind of guy who likes to let everyone know what he is doing in generous detail.

The guy can't bring home a bag of burgers without making the evening news.

Everyone has the urge deep down to be a bad guy or a bad girl.

And to think this guy did it all without government bailout money.

Truman's tireless campaigning that fall culminated in a feel-good victory of a little guy over an organization man.

Connor is also normally a good-natured guy who is good friends with everyone on the team.

One can only imagine what damage this guy could cause.

Samaras is the guy running toward the tornado when everyone else is running away.

Many patients with terminal illness find alot of satisfaction in finding a cure even if only the next guy may receive a benefit.

But the guy on the scooter couldn't even knee-steer.

There's no villain, no mean guy who wants them to live meaningless.

The little guy will get ground beneath the iron wheels of progress once again.

The headline really has nothing to do with what the guy is doing on his job.

Maybe that fever virus allows us to keep warm in cold weathernice guy to have on our side.

It seems once more the guy proves himself a true visionary.

We believe what they say because they tell us what a good guy or gal they are.

No trailer or a place to add wheels, it is on jacks and has guy lines driven into the bedrock.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a rope, cable, or appliance used to guide and steady an object being hoisted or lowered, or to secure anything likely to shift its position.

verb (used with object)

to guide, steady, or secure with a guy or guys.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English gye < Old French guie a guide, derivative of guier to guide

noun

a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”

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Collins

World English Dictionary

guy¹ (ɡaɪ)

—n
1.	informal a man or youth
2.	(Brit) a crude effigy of Guy Fawkes, usually made of old clothes stuffed with straw or rags, that is burnt on top of a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day
3.	(Brit) a person in shabby or ludicrously odd clothes
4.	informal (plural) persons of either sex

—vb
5.	(tr) to make fun of; ridicule

[C19: short for Guy Fawkes]

guy² (ɡaɪ)

—n
1.	a rope, chain, wire, etc, for anchoring an object, such as a radio mast, in position or for steadying or guiding it while being hoisted or lowered

—vb
2.	(tr) to anchor, steady, or guide with a guy or guys

[C14: probably from Low German; compare Dutch gei brail, geiblok pulley, Old French guie guide, from guier to guide]

Guy (ɡaɪ)

—n
	Buddy, real name George Guy. born 1936, US blues singer and guitarist

GUY

—*abbreviation for*
	Guyana (international car registration)

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Word Origin & History

guy

"rope, chain, wire," c.1350, "leader," from O.Fr. guie "a guide," from guier (see guide); or from a similar word in North Sea Gmc. The "rope" sense is nautical, first recorded 1623.

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guy

"fellow," 1847, originally Amer.Eng.; earlier (1836) "grotesquely or poorly dressed person," originally (1806) "effigy of Guy Fawkes," leader of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up British king and Parliament (Nov. 5, 1605), paraded through the streets by children on the anniversary of the conspiracy. The

male proper name is from Fr., related to It. Guido, lit. "leader," of Gmc. origin (see guide).

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Slang Dictionary

guy definition

n.
a fellow; a man or boy. (Colloquial. Very old. Not necessarily male in the plural.) : When you guys finish getting your makeup on, we can go back to the guys.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage

Abbreviations & Acronyms

GUY
Guyana (international vehicle ID)

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