Definitions for Guy

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Guy guy

Spelling: [gahy]

IPA: /gaɪ/

Guy is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 7 anagrams from letters in Guy (guy).

Definitions for Guy

noun

1. Informal. a man or boy; fellow:
2. Usually, guys. Informal. persons of either sex; people:
3. Chiefly British Slang. a grotesquely dressed person.
4. (often initial capital letter) British. a grotesque effigy of Guy Fawkes that is paraded through the streets and burned on Guy Fawkes Day.
5. a rope, cable, or appliance used to guide and steady an object being hoisted or lowered, or to secure anything likely to shift its position.
6. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”.

Idioms

1. give the guy to, British Slang. to escape from (someone); give (someone) the slip.

verb (used with object)

1. to jeer at or make fun of; ridicule.
2. to guide, steady, or secure with a guy or guys.

Origin of Guy

First recorded in 1800-10; after Guy Fawkes

Examples for Guy

And we have a lot of great guests this season: Greta Gerwig, Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi is back—I love that guy.

“We saw his background and he was a Bronx guy and we started breaking the case,” Boyce says.

It is guy of Gisbourne, and thou mayst have heard it before.

This was carried by my fourth son on the fifth of November, when he was a guy Fawkes.'

And guy stood sobered—sobered not at going to the war, but at leaving her.

To ensure rigidity the rudder must be stayed with guy wires.

This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

This was a guy from the hip-hop generation and with a perspective that was inextricably linked to that generation.

So's the other one—the guy as has got the mun; he's got a bank full of it.

You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.