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dummy

/ˈdʌmi/

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noun

A silent person; a person who does not talk.
An unintelligent person.
"Don't be such a dummy!"
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
"To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop."
A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
"The hammer and drill in the display are dummies."
A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
"The baby wants her dummy."
A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
"The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy."
An unused parameter or value.
"If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies."
A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.

To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
"The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals."
To feint.

Synonyms:juke

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