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A silent person; a person who does not talk.
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An unintelligent person.
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Don't be such a dummy!
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A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
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Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
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To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
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A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
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A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
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The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
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A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
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The baby wants her dummy.
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A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
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A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
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The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
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An unused parameter or value.
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If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
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A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
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A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
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