dummy
IPA: dˈʌmi
noun
- (dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.
- A stupid person.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address for somebody.
- 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.
- 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.
- (Australia, UK, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
- (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
- (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
verb
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
- (sports) To feint.
adverb
- (slang) Extremely.
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Examples of "dummy" in Sentences
- The dealer has the control over the dummy.
- The woman dummy crashed in a final clatter.
- Night of the Living Dummy The Collector's Edition.
- It is the first sequel to Night of the Living Dummy.
- Who is the puppet and who is the ventriloquist dummy
- Harlequin brought in the Dummy and a duped Solomon Grundy.
- It's as if the article is a dummy to an unseen ventriloquist.
- She sees the dummy wink as Zane happily escorts the doll into the car.
- Kris pounces on the dummy and the doll responds by punching her in the stomach.