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Dummy   /dˈəmi/   Listen
noun
Dummy  n.  (pl. dummies)  
1.
One who is dumb.
2.
A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
3.
An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
4.
(Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
5.
An ignorant or thick-witted person; a foolish person; a dolt.
Synonyms: dope, boob, booby, pinhead, dumbbell.
6.
(Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
7.
(Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
8.
A floating barge connected with a pier.
To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards. The partner of the dummy plays it.


adjective
Dummy  adj.  
1.
Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
2.
Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
Dummy car. See under Car.





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"Dummy" Quotes from Famous Books



... cub-hunting three or four times, and spent the intermediate days playing dummy whist with Fred Pepper and Cox,—who was no longer a lieutenant. Ralph felt that this was not the sort of beginning for his better life which would have been most appropriate; but then he hardly had an opportunity of beginning that better life quite at once. He must wait till something ...
— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope
... being served on. Smythe was using TK to lift the bills into those false bottoms, well screened by the trays from the TV monitors. Barney was in on it, of course. And after the joint had lost enough dough that way, Rose and Simonetti would have had to sell out. Only the buyer would have been a dummy for Rose and Smythe, using money Smythe had lifted ...
— Vigorish • Gordon Randall Garrett
... hands upon the blasphemous impersonator rushed forward with outstretched hand to seize the ape-man. Instead it was he who was seized; seized by steel fingers that snapped him up as though he had been a dummy of straw, grasped him by one leg and the harness at his back and raised him with giant arms high above the altar. Close at his heels were others ready to seize the ape-man and drag him down, and beyond the altar was Lu-don with drawn knife ...
— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... why it is getting time to settle what you are to do. I could allow you so much a year, and let you be a gentleman, with nothing to do, if I liked; but I don't hold with a young fellow going through life and being of no use—only a tailor's dummy ...
— Son Philip • George Manville Fenn
... she squirmed like an eel, and her little bald head bobbed up and down faster than a di-dapper. Then I walked her, but I would as soon try to swing to a greased snake. She wriggled and bucked, and tied herself up into a bow knot, and yelled—. Oh! a Comanche papoose is a dummy to her. As if I had not hands full, arms full, and ears full, Dick must needs wake up and pitch head foremost out of the cradle, and turn a double summerset before he landed upside down on the floor, whereupon he lifted up his voice, and the concert grew lively. ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson


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