- front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman - a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
--1 is a kind of deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
- straw man, strawman - a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
--2 is a kind of specious argument
- scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer - an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
--3 is a kind of effigy, image, simulacrum