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Dummy

ˈdʌmi

Dummy definitions
noun
dummies dummy
  1. a model or replica of a human being

    "a waxwork dummy"

    • a figure used for displaying or fitting clothes

      "a tailor's dummy"

    • a ventriloquist's doll
  2. an object designed to resemble and serve as a substitute for the real or usual one

    "tests using stuffed owls and wooden dummies"

    • a rubber or plastic teat for a baby to suck on
    • a prototype or mock-up, especially of a book or the layout of a page
    • a blank round of ammunition
    • denoting a word that has no semantic content but is used to maintain grammatical structure

      "a dummy subject as in ‘it is’ or ‘there are’"

  3. (chiefly in rugby and soccer) a feigned pass or kick intended to deceive an opponent
  4. a stupid person
  5. the declarer's partner, whose cards are exposed on the table after the opening lead and played by the declarer
    • the exposed hand of the declarer's partner
    • an imaginary fourth player in whist

      "dummy whist"

verb
dummies dummying dummied dummy
  1. (chiefly in rugby and soccer) feign a pass or kick in order to deceive an opponent

    "Blanco dummied past a static defence"

  2. create a mock-up of (a book, document, etc.)

    "when we received the galleys from the typesetter, we would have dummied the book"