decoy
IPA: dʌkˈɔɪ
noun
- A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
- A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
- Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.
- An assembly of hooped or netted corridors into which wild ducks may be enticed (originally by tame ducks) and trapped.
verb
- (transitive) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
- (intransitive) To act as, or use, a decoy.
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Examples of "decoy" in Sentences
- All Comments from peter wrote 1 year 2 weeks ago real lookin decoy
- Yes | No | Report from peter wrote 1 year 2 weeks ago real lookin decoy
- Sure, the birds fly all day, but getting one to decoy is close to impossible.
- This works well with decoy shy ducks, because sometimes the best decoy is none at all.
- A team led by the University of Cambridge bred chickens with a piece of DNA that produces what researchers dubbed a decoy molecule, which tricks and diverts an enzyme key to the flu virus' reproduction.
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