scarecrow

These include setting up electric fences, training a guard animal like a dog to warn you of any intruding bears, rigging motion-sensing strobe lights to go off when they detect a bear, placing scarecrows around your property, and many more.
How to keep fat bears (and other bears) out of your trash|Natalie Wallington|September 29, 2021|Popular-Science
The idea is that the mere presence of police should prevent people from committing crimes — a sort of scarecrow effect.
Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution.|German Lopez|September 27, 2021|Vox
You should look like a scarecrow on the yellow-brick road, but you should also be warm by the time you are done.
How to build snowshoes on the fly—and 4 other tips for surviving deep snow|By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life|January 5, 2021|Popular-Science
It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

There, the beloved characters would emerge: the Cowardly Lion singing about courage and the Scarecrow dancing with the crows.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road…to North Carolina|Nina Strochlic|February 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was rumored that Howard Stern would play Scarecrow and Madonna would play Harley Quinn.
The 11 Worst Sequel Ideas to Come out of Hollywood|Chancellor Agard|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There's no Judy Garland songs, no Scarecrow, no Tin Man, no Cowardly Lion.
What Critics Are Saying About ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’|Marlow Stern|March 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His size 22 feet splayed out in front of him, he resembles an oversize version of the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.
The Seven Foot Philanthropist|Sandra McElwaine|June 4, 2010|DAILY BEAST
It is at best but a worn-out scarecrow shaking its vain rags in the wind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so are their gods of wood, and of silver, and laid over with gold.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
"Silly," said Jehosophat, for he was older than Marmaduke and knew Mr. Scarecrow very well.
Seven O'Clock Stories|Robert Gordon Anderson
Woot watched this operation with much interest, for the Scarecrow's body was only a suit of clothes filled with straw.
The Tin Woodman of Oz|L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow's head was a gunnysack filled with bran, on which the eyes, nose and mouth had been painted.
The Tin Woodman of Oz|L. Frank Baum

British Dictionary definitions for scarecrow

scarecrow

/ (ˈskɛəˌkrəʊ) /

noun

an object, usually in the shape of a man, made out of sticks and old clothes to scare birds away from crops

a person or thing that appears frightening but is not actually harmful

informal

an untidy-looking person
a very thin person

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