scapegoat

  • 21scapegoat — noun find yourself another scapegoat Syn: whipping boy; informal fall guy, patsy …

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  • 22scapegoat — [ˈskeɪpˌgəʊt] noun [C] someone who is blamed for something that is not their fault scapegoat verb [T] …

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  • 23scapegoat — scape•goat [[t]ˈskeɪpˌgoʊt[/t]] n. 1) a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place 2) bib a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its… …

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  • 24scapegoat — /ˈskeɪpgoʊt / (say skaypgoht) noun 1. someone who is made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place. –verb (t) 2. to make into a scapegoat. {scape2 (verb) + goat; originally with reference to the goat, in ancient Jewish ritual,… …

  • 25scapegoat — [16] In biblical times the ritual of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, included a ceremony involving two goats: one was sacrificed to God, and the other was sent off into the wilderness as the symbolic bearer of the people’s sins. This… …

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  • 26scapegoat — n. & v. n. 1 a person bearing the blame for the sins, shortcomings, etc. of others, esp. as an expedient. 2 Bibl. a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16). v.tr.… …

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  • 27Scapegoat Wax — was a hip hop/rap/breakbeat act from Northern California, USA that was started by Marty James and Johnny Z (AKA J.DeVille). Johnny Z was in the band for a relatively brief time, but was active in Scapegoat Wax s earliest tracks, primarily those… …

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  • 28Scapegoat Wax — fue un grupo de música Rock/Hip Hop/Rap originaria del norte de California, Estados Unidos. La banda fue iniciada por James Marty y Johnny Z (J. DeVille). Johnny Z estuvo en la banda por un tiempo relativamente breve, pero su participación fue… …

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  • 29Scapegoat 666 — is the name of the first demo tape prepared by Balzac, the Japanese horror punk band. It was made in 1992.Track listing Side A: # Intro # Diabolos # Monster Side B: # Nothing # Goddamn Son of a Bitch # Violent Paradise Personnel* Hirosuke vocals… …

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  • 30Scapegoat tree — In computer science, a scapegoat tree is a self balancing binary search tree, invented by Igal Galperin and Ronald L. Rivest. It provides worst case O(log n ) lookup time, and O(log n ) amortized insertion and deletion time.Unlike other self… …

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