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What does scarecrow mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word scarecrow? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.
  2. (pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
  4. A person clad in rags and tatters.
  5. (Britain, dialect) A bird, the black tern.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.
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