▸ noun: (dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk. ▸ noun: A stupid person. ▸ noun: (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address. ▸ noun: A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet. ▸ noun: Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person. ▸ noun: A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw. ▸ noun: A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one. ▸ noun: (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby. ▸ noun: (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player. ▸ noun: (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical. ▸ noun: (programming) An unused parameter or value. ▸ noun: (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent. ▸ noun: (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint. ▸ noun: (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move. ▸ verb: To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality. ▸ verb: (sports) To feint. ▸ adverb: (US, slang) Extremely.
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