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.

Examples of "dummy" in Sentences

To be shed of such a dummy is a GOOD thing for Alaskans.
This dummy is going around in circles within his own mind.
I set up what they call a dummy corporation, John McKenzie helped me to do it.
South threw a heart and won in dummy, but East got the king of hearts at the end.
Please start hiding malware of viruses in dummy links on google to teach a lesson or something like that.
April 9th, 2010 at 12: 41 am tombaker says: got your thongs all wadded up the whole point of the thong, dummy, is that there is nothing to get wadded up.
I have not been convinced by what the Air Force claimed and, of course, what I call the dummy drop theory of Roswell doesn't satisfy anyone, even the skeptics tended to laugh at that.
Sen. Levin decried what he called "dummy assets" in the CDO, which help boost the rating and then were replaced at the last minute with lower quality assets, and called emails exchanged among S&P analysts, discussing Delphinus, "just devastating as to the kind of culture that was going on here."