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 deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
(card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
(UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
2011, January 12, Saj Chowdhury, Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool, Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.
(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
(programming) An unused parameter or value.If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
2011, February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa, The more glamorous qualities usually associated with him are skill and pace and he used those to race on to a ball across him and dummy a defender before having a right-foot shot saved.
2011, January 15, Kevin Darling, West Ham 0 - 3 Arsenal, For the first, the 30-year-old allowed Walcott space on the right to send in a pass that was expertly dummied by Samir Nasri, allowing Van Persie to swivel and smash right-footed past Robert Green.
