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 awesomejob 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
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.