fĭg'yər-hĕd'
A comic actor who assists a comedian by feeding him lines and by being the butt of jokes and pranks
A person acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
A deliberately weak and easily refuted argument put forward, as by a politician or debater, as the argument of the opposition
a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
Alternative spelling of straw man.
A person or thing of no importance or value
Shakespeare
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standard-bearer (related)
figure-head (related)
titular head
An unimportant or insignificant person
nobody (related)
Not any person; not anybody; no one
(Printing) A set of pages with the layout, as for a magazine
(Sports) A rubber or flexible plastic protective device worn over the teeth, as by boxers.
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(Obs.) A doll
Find another word for figurehead. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for figurehead, like: stooge, front-man, straw-man, nominal-head, strawman, cipher, front, standard-bearer, , titular head and nonentity.
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