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dummy
noun (dummies )
1 a life-size model of the human body, eg used for displaying clothes.
2 a realistic copy, especially one misleadingly substituted for the genuine article.
3 a rubber teat sucked by a baby for comfort. Also called pacifier.
4 colloq, chiefly N Am a stupid person.
5 sport an act of dummying with the ball.
6 a person or company acting seemingly independently, but really the agent of another.
7 bridge an exposed hand of cards.
adjective false; sham; counterfeit.
verb (dummies , dummied , dummying ) tr & intr , sport
a to make as if to move one way before sharply moving the other, in order to deceive (an opponent);
b to do so with (a ball).
[16c, originally meaning -a person who cannot speak-: from dumb]
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