stalking-horse   (TTS Sound)

The noun stalking-horse has 4 senses

• stalking-horse -- (a candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate)


• pretext, stalking-horse -- (something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason)


• stalking-horse -- (screen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game)


• stalking-horse -- (a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game)