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