dummy

  1. Noun.  A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  2. Noun.  An unintelligent person.
  3. Noun.  A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  4. Noun.  Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
  5. Noun.  A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
  6. Noun.  (UK) A pacifier.
  7. Noun.  (card games, chiefly) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
  8. Noun.  (UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
  9. Noun.  (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
  10. Noun.  (programming) An unused parameter or value.
  11. Verb.  To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
  12. Verb.  To feint.

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