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guy
1[ gahy ]
noun
- Informal. a man or boy; fellow:
He's a nice guy.
- none guys, Informal. people, regardless of their gender:
Could one of you guys help me with this?
- Chiefly British Slang. a grotesquely dressed person.
- Often Guy. 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.
guy
2[ gahy ]
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.
Guy
3[ gahy; French gee ]
noun
- a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”
guy
1/ ɡaɪ /
noun
- 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
verb
- tr to anchor, steady, or guide with a guy or guys
guy
2/ ɡaɪ /
noun
- informal.a man or youth
- 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
- a person in shabby or ludicrously odd clothes
- informal.plural persons of either sex
verb
- tr to make fun of; ridicule
Guy
3/ ɡaɪ /
noun
- GuyBuddy1936MUSMUSIC: blues singerMUSIC: guitarist Buddy, real name George Guy. born 1936, US blues singer and guitarist
GUY
4abbreviation for
- Guyana (international car registration)
Word History and Origins
Origin of guy1
Word History and Origins
Origin of guy1
Origin of guy2
Idioms and Phrases
- give the guy to, British Slang. to escape from (someone); give (someone) the slip.
Example Sentences
If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’
When we had that meeting in the Caribbean, Jeffrey was holding his own and not only was he a pleasant host, he was pleasant guy.
And we have a lot of great guests this season: Greta Gerwig, Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi is back—I love that guy.
Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.
Fifty per cent, and with the ten that we are supposed to pay you, that don't leave a guy much profit.
One of them was the late Secretary of the Treasury, Guy, who had been turned out of his place for corruption.
"There's a guy outside wants to see you, Chief," Charlie Ward's assistant announced through the door.
Lamb worked his way up into the throng and got a glimpse of the other guy getting stiff on the backroom floor.
For instance, the guy that was kicked by a mule, he had a hoof mark on his head and his mule had a bloody hoof.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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