Meaning Whipping boy
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Whipping boyA heavily fortified player-owned planet dedicated to receiving waves and possibly other attacks.
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Whipping boyA boy kept to be whipped when a prince deserved chastisement. Mungo Murray stood for Charles I., Barnaby Fitzpatrick for Edward VI. (Fuller: Church History, ii. 342.) D’Ossat and Du Perron, a [..]
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Whipping boy
Someone punished for the errors of others, historically a boy that was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince.
''"As the whipping boy, he must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince B [..]
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