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      dummy
      noun
      A stupid person.
      A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
      Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
      A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
      (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
      (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
      (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
      (programming) An unused parameter or value.
      (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
      (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
      A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
      (chess) A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
      (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
      (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
      (dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.
      verb
      To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
      (sports) To feint.
      adverb
      (US, slang) Extremely.
      Synonyms for dummy
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      Words related to dummy
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