Phrase guide
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noun
A person, animal or thing treated as expendable, to therefore use as an experimental subject regardless of whatever loss or damage it may suffer as a result.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The subject of an experiment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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History
From Latin corpus (“body”) vile (“worthless”).
