front man

1. 1.

   a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

   Synonymsfrontfigureheadnominal headstraw manstrawman

   Broaderdeceiver

Questions about front man

What does front man mean?

front man means "a person used as a cover for some questionable activity".

What is another word for front man?

Close synonyms include front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is front man a common word?

front man is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.