Fall
Whipping
Whipping noun - Failure to win a contest.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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In order to keep the stress from killing him they've provided the fall guy with a whipping boy and the whipping boy with a (literal) scapegoat.
Source: The Scapegoat - Slade even admits he admires her courage, before whipping out a sword and stabbing her in the chest, letting her gracefully fall to the ground.
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When they inevitably fall, Karin saves both their lives by wrapping one end of the cable around her arm, and then, a dozen feet before splattering on the pavement, whipping the other end across the width of a pedestrian bridge to wrap around a streetlight.
Source: Not the Fall That Kills You
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