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human shield
- noun + noun
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Def: someone who is taken and kept as a prisoner by a criminal in order to protect the criminal from being killed, injured, or caught
Example: Some criminals use innocent bystanders as human shields to protect themselves from the police.
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use somebody as a human shield
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make a human shield of somebody
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