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  1. noun A rope, cord, or cable used to steady, guide, or secure something.
  2. transitive verb To steady, guide, or secure with a rope, cord, or cable.
  3. noun Informal A man; a fellow.
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  • What depresses me, Qwill, is that the guy was a family man. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_16_The_Cat_Who_Came_To_Breakfast
  • The other guy was a stay-at-home journalist who always seemed a little too anxious to chat up the moms. —  Harlan Coben - Just One Look
  • This guy is a sadist who wants to do an analysis of human fear, but tells his research subjects that he is doing a sleep disorder study. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 06 - December 1999
  • Sure the guy is a Nazi and sure Nazis are bad, but Schwartz was nuts, just nuts, harmless. —  The Maine Massacre - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-de Gier 07
  • This guy was at least six inches taller than me and probably ten inches wider across the shoulders. —  Persuader by Lee Child
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  1. Partly from Middle English gie, guide, guy (from Old French guie, from guier, to guide; see weid- in Indo-European roots) and partly from Low German; akin to Dutch gei, brail.
  2. After Guy Fawkes.

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  1. Early modern English also guie; from Middle English guyen, gyen, gien, from Old French guier, orig. and later guider = Provencal guiar, guidar = Spanish Portuguese guiar = Italian guidare, guide; of Teutonic origin: see guide. The particular mech. sense (def. 2) is modern.
  2. from Old French guye, guie, a guide, a crane or derrick, = Spanish guia, a guide, etc., a small rope used on board ship to keep weighty things in their places; from the verb: see guy, v., and cf. guide, n.
  3. Short for Guy Fawkes: see def.
  4. from guy, n.
 

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