whipping boy Definition

scapegoat, punching bag, bogeyman, lightning rod, apologist, vilified, basher, patsy, darling, pariah, lapdog, fodder, demonized, pilloried, stooge, malcontent, boogeyman, villain, bete noire, thorn, reviled, nemesis, laughingstock, mouthpiece, savior, lampooned, whiner, plaything, rallying cry, despised, cause celebre, lackeys, bugbear, loose cannon, detractor, loathed, shill, blame, toady, hypocrite, excoriate, handmaiden, criticize, maligned, grist, whinger, sycophant, coddler, lambast, scorn, kowtowing, demonize, castigated, ridiculed, needler, crybaby, crosshairs, bane, crony, cannon fodder, bogyman, excuse, lambasted, hot potato, mocked, focal point, scold, panderer, flack, unpardonably, ditherer, dissing, irritant, troublemaker, malcontented, hobbyhorse, naysayer, stepchild, skewered, touchstone, sympathizer, expendable, derided, nonentity, fearmonger, loser, blowhard, shibboleth, shorthand, hater, doomsayer, bugaboo, party pooper, spinmeister, underachiever, opprobrium, villian, synonym, beholden, baiter,