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buck-passing
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buck-pass·ing (bkpsng)
n. Informal
The shifting of responsibility or blame to another: "smothered in avalanches of recriminations and orgies of buck-passing" (Forbes).

[buck (from a poker player's passing the marker, or buck, to the next player when not wanting to deal).]

buck-passer n.


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The point is, with some notable exceptions, many managers are prize buck-passers who would knife their granny to save their own skins.
One buck-passer from Sheffield even tried to blame his dog, by saying the television was only on for the benefit of his pet and that he never watched it.
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