Definitions
1.nounA silent person; a person who does not talk.
2.nounAn unintelligent person."Don't be such a dummy!"
3.nounA figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
4.nounSomething 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."
5.nounA person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
6.nounA deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one."The hammer and drill in the display are dummies."
7.nounA "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier."The baby wants her dummy."
8.nounA player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
9.nounA word serving only to make a construction grammatical."The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy."
10.nounAn unused parameter or value."If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies."
11.nounA feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
12.nounA bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
13.verbTo 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."
14.verbTo feint.