Guy

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▶abbreviation Guyana (international vehicle registration).

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▶noun

• 1 informal a man.

  ■ (guys) chiefly N. Amer. people of either sex.

• 2 Brit. a figure representing the Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes, burnt on a bonfire on 5 November to commemorate a failed plot to blow up Parliament in 1605.

▶verb make fun of.

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▶noun a rope or line fixed to the ground to secure a tent. ▶verb secure with a guy or guys.

– origin ME: prob. of Low Ger. origin; rel. to Du. gei ‘brail’ and Ger. Geitaue ‘brails’.