Definitions for dummy

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dummy dum·my

Spelling: [duhm-ee]

IPA: /ˈdʌm i/

Dummy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in dummy (dmmuy).

Definitions for dummy

noun

1. a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance:
2. a representation of a human figure, as for displaying clothes in store windows.
3. Informal. a stupid person; dolt.
4. a person who has nothing to say or who takes no active part in affairs.
5. one put forward to act for others while ostensibly acting for oneself.
6. Slang. Older Use: Offensive. a person who lacks the power of speech. a person who is characteristically and habitually silent.
7. Bridge. the declarer's partner, whose hand is exposed and played by the declarer. the hand of cards so exposed. a game so played. an imaginary player represented by an exposed hand that is played by and serves as partner to one of the players.
8. British. pacifier (def 2).
9. Printing. sheets folded and made up to show the size, shape, form, sequence, and general style of a contemplated piece of printing.
10. a rammer for pushing out dents in lead pipe.
11. Computers. an artificial address, instruction, or other datum fed into a computer only to fulfill prescribed conditions and not affecting operations for solving problems.
12. Military. a nonexplosive bomb used for practice exercises.
13. Dentistry. pontic.

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to an imitation, representation, or copy.
2. counterfeit; sham; fictitious.
3. put forward to act for others while ostensibly acting for oneself.
4. Cards. played with a dummy.

Verb phrases

1. dummy up, Informal. to keep silent; refuse to answer:

verb (used with object)

1. Printing. to prepare a dummy of (often followed by up):
2. to represent in a dummy (often followed by in):

Origin of dummy

1590-1600; 1915-20, Americanism for def 20; dumb + -y³

Examples for dummy

What did you use as the hammer during that kill scene, and were you just hitting a dummy that spurted blood out?

Somebody (a monk, I presume) has put a dummy dressed in a guard's uniform inside.

He ran a hand across his eyes, dropped the dummy onto the desk.

Again the dummy's mouth opened, the head bobbed and the eyes blinked.

On Friday, she appeared in court as Ann Marie Miller, again proving herself to be no dummy and decidedly different.

He walked over to the dummy and touched the wooden head with his hand.

IN the next two or three days dummy he got to be powerful popular.

In a sermon on Sunday, the chair of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP called Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) "a dummy."

He walked over to Spud, lifted the dummy into position in the crook of his arm.

It was a Pakistani agenda, and we played the role of the dummy.