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- noun A person that has unknowingly been convinced to act toward some interest.
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From the title of the 1959 novel or 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.
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