Usually means: Imitation or model for display.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word dummy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dummy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dummy, dummy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dummy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dummy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dummy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dummy, dummy: Wordnik
  7. dummy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dummy: Wiktionary
  9. dummy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dummy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dummy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dummy: Dictionary.com
  13. dummy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dummy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dummy (DC Comics), Dummy (DC comics), Dummy (Pushing Daisies episode), Dummy (TV), Dummy (album), Dummy (film), Dummy (football), Dummy, The Dummy (The Twilight Zone), The Dummy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dummy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dummy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dummy: Rhymezone
  19. dummy, dummy (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. DUMMY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. Dummy: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. dummy: Free Dictionary
  23. dummy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dummy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Dummy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dummy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. dummy: Graphic Design Dictionary
  3. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dummy: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Dummy (disambiguation), Dummy: Legal dictionary
  3. Dummy (disambiguation), dummy: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dummy (disambiguation), dummy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dummy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dummy (disambiguation), dummy: Medical dictionary
  4. Dummy: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. dummy: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dummy, dummy, dummy, dummy, dummy, dummy, dummy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dummy: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. dummy: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dummy: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Dummy: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See dummied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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