[ noun ] a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of <noun.person>
Green asked. "It's not the function of a free press to act as a patsy to law enforcement." But supporters, such as Shirley M. Campfield of the Lake Worth Concerned Citizens, said the coupons are an excellent crime-fighting tool.
"It's a matter of whether the government rolls over and plays the patsy," Mr. Chanos, head of New York-based Kynikos Associates, says.
The feeling that North was a patsy for higher-ups, especially Reagan and Bush, seemed widespread in the village.
Neither was he the Oliver North of last week's television fiction who so idolized powerful men that he wound up as everybody's patsy.
In personal-injury suits, a city spokeswoman says, "New York is considered the biggest patsy around."