Usually means: Lure designed to attract attention.
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  1. decoy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. decoy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decoy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decoy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decoy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decoy, decoy: Wordnik
  7. decoy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decoy: Wiktionary
  9. decoy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decoy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decoy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Decoy, decoy: Dictionary.com
  13. decoy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decoy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decoy (EP), Decoy (TV series), Decoy (album), Decoy (chess), Decoy (disambiguation), Decoy (film), Decoy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Decoy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. decoy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. decoy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. decoy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. decoy: Free Dictionary
  21. decoy: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  23. decoy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. decoy: Rhymezone

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. decoy: Legal dictionary

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  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

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  1. The Decoy: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Decoy: Chess Dictionary

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

(Note: See decoyed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decoy)

noun:  A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
noun:  A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
noun:  Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.
noun:  An assembly of hooped or netted corridors into which wild ducks may be enticed (originally by tame ducks) and trapped.
verb:  (transitive) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as, or use, a decoy.

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