guy

Noun

• a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)

• an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day

• an informal term for a youth or man
  • a nice guy
    
  • the guy's only doing it for some doll
    

Verb

• steady or support with a guy wire or cable
  • The Italians guyed the Tower of Pisa to prevent it from collapsing
    

• subject to laughter or ridicule
  • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
    
  • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
    
  • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  guy cable , guy wire , guy rope , Guy , cat , hombre , bozo , ridicule , roast , blackguard , laugh at , jest at , rib , make fun , poke fun