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Dummy
ˈdʌmi
Dummy definitions
noun
dummies
dummy
- 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
- 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’"
- (chiefly in rugby and soccer) a feigned pass or kick intended to deceive an opponent
- a stupid person
- 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
- (chiefly in rugby and soccer) feign a pass or kick in order to deceive an opponent
"Blanco dummied past a static defence"
- create a mock-up of (a book, document, etc.)
"when we received the galleys from the typesetter, we would have dummied the book"