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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn: front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1932 1. a person serving as a front or figurehead 2. the lead performer in a musical group

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(front men) If you say that someone is a front man for a group or organization, you mean that their role is to represent and give a good impression of it to the public, especially when it is not very respectable or popular. Tremaine is the company's front man in Washington. N-COUNT: oft N for n [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

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