DUMMY

/ˈdʌmi/
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Definition

/ˈdʌmi/
noun
  1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  2. An unintelligent person.
    “Don't be such a dummy!”
  3. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  4. 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.”
  5. A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
verb
  1. 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.”
  2. To feint.

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