Definitions for decoy

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decoy de·coy

Spelling: [noun dee-koi, dih-koi; verb dih- Decoy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in decoy (cdeoy).

Definitions for decoy

noun

1. a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
2. anything used as a lure.
3. a trained bird or other animal used to entice game into a trap or within gunshot.
4. an artificial bird, as a painted wooden duck, used for the same purpose.
5. a pond into which wild fowl are lured for capture.
6. an object capable of reflecting radar waves, used as a spurious aircraft, missile, chaff, etc., for the deception of radar detectors.

verb (used with object)

1. to lure by or as if by a decoy:

verb (used without object)

1. to become decoyed:

Origin of decoy

1610-20; variant of coy (now dial.) Dutch (de) kooi (the) cage, Middle Dutch cōie Latin cavea cage

Examples for decoy

And in this trap of Iblis was decoy enough for a poor mouse like me.

About sundown he took in his decoy Hen, as Owls were abundant, and went back to his camp.

One of the Indians then stationed himself as a decoy, and howled like a wolf.

I want you, besides, to act as a decoy in a case I have already told you of.

No, he has put forward as the decoy my colleague, Croffut,—perhaps you know him?

I durst not follow them; for it might be a feint to decoy me from my post.

Lönnborg, who works as a lawyer in London, has on several occasions posed as Elin, acting as a decoy to throw off the paparazzi.

The comparison of the mind to a block of wax, or to a decoy of birds, is found wanting.

I am to decoy the young thing away by making her believe as I'm her husband, eh?

“That is the sort of decoy they use in our country,” Jethro said.