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Guy Fawkes
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What does Guy Fawkes mean?
noun
- An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned as part of the Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.
verb
- To celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.
- To blow up a building as an act of political sabotage.
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verb
- To execute by hanging.
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Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.
It was the fifteenth of January, before the trial of Guy Fawkes, and such of the other conspirators as were left alive, came on.
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He was close beside me, when I walked away from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers into the still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.