An effigy of Guy Fawkes paraded through the streets of English towns and burned on Guy Fawkes Day, A rope, cord, or cable used to steady, guide, or secure something, an informal term for a youth or man, verb_ steady or support with a guy wire or cable, subject to laughter or ridicule, transitive verb_ To steady or guide with a guy, To hold up to ridicule; mock, intransitive verb_ To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November