dummy
/ˈdʌmi/ noun C1- A silent person; a person who does not talk.
- A stupid person. · Don't be such a dummy!
- A term of address. · Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?
- 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. · To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
- 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. · The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
- A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
Plural dummies
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Why, it’s a dummy,” said he.
“They seem to have been of a most interesting character—dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate.
The discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and coming to the bed.
Have you seen the dummy?
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