Guy commonly means a man, but in casual speech it can also refer to people in general, as in “you guys.” In some uses, it can mean any person, especially in informal conversation.
From the name “Guy Fawkes,” a man involved in a failed plot to blow up the English Parliament in 1605. Effigies of him were called “guys,” and the word spread to mean oddly dressed people, then any man.
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