Someone who is punished for the errors of others.
A person who is continually target of mean jokes and/or bad treatment and towards whom anger is directed.
1 The NRA is reluctant to become a whipping boy for Government failures.
2 Not to mention being Sadie's whipping boy , he confessed, his voice harsh.
3 Yet he's become a whipping boy as election day approaches.
4 I know why he suffered through being Warner's whipping boy .
5 Unsurprisingly, Trenberth is a favorite whipping boy for climate skeptics.
6 By now, the global ticket-selling giant is probably accustomed to its whipping boy status.
7 These problems need much larger solutions, and PMQs shouldn't become the whipping boy for them.
8 Daniel said: Nick Clegg has become a whipping boy .
9 That's why you can't use the Abu Sayyaf as a whipping boy in the south.
10 Since Irish fiscal policy began, capital spending has been the whipping boy for current expenditure.
11 Everyone's favorite cinematic whipping boy , Uwe Boll, bottomed out with four movies on the list.
12 Darius Boyd has been the whipping boy in Brisbane for the past couple of seasons.
13 Sure, Moussa Sissoko is the main whipping boy at White Hart Lane at the moment.
14 Clearly, I was going to be everybody's whipping boy tonight, a complete waste of protoplasm.
15 Fouts had used Terrace as a whipping boy while promoting Project Washoe and his own work.
16 Including Barnaby FitzPatrick, who is his whipping boy .
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