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(dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.
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A stupid person.
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(African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
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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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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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(Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
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(card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
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(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
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(programming) An unused parameter or value.
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(sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
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(sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
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(attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.