dummy

IPA: dˈʌmi

(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.

To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
(sports) To feint.

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