An individual, group or country singled out for unmerited negative treatment or blame; then accepting the blame, and overly going along with the plan against them to the point of looking like a dick.
Xest: If you look at what happened with the DRM fiasco, we had Don insulting his customers...
UnknowingFool: Or maybe Mattrick was a scapegoat and was doing what he was told to do.
Xest: It's hard to imagine Mattrick was a scapegoat given that he implicated himself by defending so rabidly the DRM policies in interviews to the extent of insulting customers. I very much doubt his orders were "Don, go make a dick of yourself in public". I'm pretty sure he managed that all by himself.
NFN_NLN: I think we can all agree we've coined the new term: "scapedick" :)
Crowd: Mattrick was such a scapedick on the XBoxOne DRM issue.
A person who not only takes the blame, whether it is their fault or not, for the miserable failing of an object, but then also insults their customers at the same time.
Some may say that Don Mattrick did an awesome job revealing the Xbox One, but he was nothing more than a scapedick, taking the fall and losing many customers with his ill-mannered banter and insistence that he knows what gamers want.
As in the word " Scarecrow ", A Scarechick is a generally ugly or not conventionally attractive male that often scares chicks away with their lack of social skills or notoriously cringeworthy speech and/or interests
A: Dude, Idk what went wrong, she blocked me right after I started getting comfortable and talking about my interests...
B: You were lecturing her about bitcoin again weren't you? Dude, I told you that's total Scarechick behavior
another term for a station wagon, mini-van, or any other kind of vehicle that is targeted at the "family" demographic(also M.A.V.)
"Tactical advantages aside, the M.A.V. is top of the line for the holy warrior troop transport manufactured by the Church of Latter Day Saints Military Industrial Complex. Also great for family trips...to heathen lands."
12 step recovery jargon referring to someone new who talks about how great life is, now that they'resober. Usually meaning that the person is out of touch with reality.
The new guy seems pretty happy for a dude who has no job, no money and no family. He must be on a pink cloud.