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stalking-horse
 
Noun stalking-horse has 4 senses
  1. stalking-horse - a candidate put forward to divide the opposition or to mask the true candidate
    --1 is a kind of     campaigner, candidate, nominee
  2. pretext, stalking-horse - something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
    --2 is a kind of pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
    --2 has particulars: putoff
  3. stalking-horse - screen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game
    --3 is a kind of     screen, cover, covert, concealment
  4. stalking-horse - a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game
    --4 is a kind of     horse, Equus caballus
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