Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person easily taken advantage of, cheated, blamed, or ridiculed.
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- noun informal, derogatory A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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February 13th, 2010 at 12: 23 am just the bleepn facts says: patsy is a criminal, she always plagiarizes as crooks do …
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics. 2010
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You heard it folks, patsy is pro-criminality (pro-terrorism) if her side does it!
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Maybe patsy is confused and is thinking of when Bush Bin Laden let the rest of his clan out of the country after 9/11?
Think Progress » Congressional GOP wants to keep Steele ‘out of sight, out of mind.’ 2010
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Shilling for the unregulated banking industry and foreign governments again patsy?
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So tell me again patsy why Bush cause the Dow to collapse from 13,000 to 8,000 before Obama took office again?
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A hand full of attacks by a couple of dozen radical islamists who are pissed because we bomb their countries, r@pe their women, steal their oil, overthrow their governments and otherwise declare war on them means patsy is sh! tting her pants enough to throw out the constitution despite the “real” threat from this being 1/100th of the real threat brought to you by the GOP radicals!
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Martin Wolf of the Financial Times once told me that the self-interested, strategic economic behaviors of other major economic stakeholders in the international system required a "patsy" -- someone who would believe in the "just-in-time" security of give-and-take trade and give-and-take finance and jobs, even when its competitors didn't.
Steve Clemons: Eva Peron Wins: The Pretension of a 'Savings Lottery' Steve Clemons 2011
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Martin Wolf of the Financial Times once told me that the self-interested, strategic economic behaviors of other major economic stakeholders in the international system required a "patsy" -- someone who would believe in the "just-in-time" security of give-and-take trade and give-and-take finance and jobs, even when its competitors didn't.
Steve Clemons: Eva Peron Wins: The Pretension of a 'Savings Lottery' Steve Clemons 2011
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Martin Wolf of the Financial Times once told me that the self-interested, strategic economic behaviors of other major economic stakeholders in the international system required a "patsy" -- someone who would believe in the "just-in-time" security of give-and-take trade and give-and-take finance and jobs, even when its competitors didn't.
Steve Clemons: Eva Peron Wins: The Pretension of a 'Savings Lottery' Steve Clemons 2011
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It might be recalled that Oswald himself used that same word -- "patsy" -- meaning a person set up to take the blame for a crime.
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