Synonyms:
figurehead
Meaning: figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
Synonyms:
front_man, front, figurehead, nominal_head, straw_man, strawman
Meaning: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
Usage examples
The Coastguard cottages are a little farther on, and an old ship's figurehead of a Turk in a turban stared at them over the wall.
Mr. Barker shared with Mr. Benyon the honour of being first man in. The Latchmere captain, as a captain, had become quite as much a figurehead as I had.
Here he had set up the battered figurehead of a wrecked ship and, imagining that its face resembled that of Kit whom he so fiendishly hated, he used to amuse himself by screwing gimlets into its breast, sticking forks into its eyes and beating it with a poker.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bob Dylan, License CC BY-SA 4.0