dummy
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- noun
- /ˈdʌmi/
- Researchers hope to replace crash test dummies with models of the human body.
- a crash test dummy
- a test dummy
- 100-kg dummy
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Watch on YouTubeOh, that hurt me more than it hurt the dummy.
- Oh, that hurt me more than it hurt the dummy.
- OK, so now the dummies are alive, conscious, and they're facing this mass of people.
- No, don't say oh, you brought up ventriloquist dummies.
- One of our England fans stood outside the pub saying, yeah, we hung that noose up there and we took the dummy down.
- Like it's is it like if you just started yanking on the cord of a ventriloquist dummy up and down?
Examples
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Barbara shrugs, slips the dress off the dummy, and Annie steps into it.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her attention was given instead to a dressmaker's dummy, the kind with adjustable waist, hips, and breasts.
Fiction book (1996) -
Can you make me a dummy admin code, please?
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We also use them as tackling dummies.
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I pinned the head on and put the dummy on the inside of the windowsill.
Fiction book (1993) -
They supply dressmaker dummies built off scans of your own body.
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Once fully attired, the modified LifeTec rescue training dummy weighed 55 kg in total.
Academic text (2017) -
The actors used a dummy in the rehearsal to practice their lines without a real person.
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Crash test dummies are essential for safely testing the impact resistance of vehicles.
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During the medical training, students practiced their skills on a dummy designed to simulate a real patient.
Synonyms
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A puppet moved by a person to make it look like it talks
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A life-size model of a human used to show clothes
Idioms
Compounds
How Realistic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dummy comes from dumb 'silent' plus -y, because long ago a human-shaped figure did not need to speak. So a dummy is a silent stand-in used to show clothes or to train people.