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Wikipedia
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Dummy is the debut album by English band Portishead , released in the UK on 22 August 1994 on Go! Beat . The album received critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize . It is often credited with popularising the trip hop genre and is frequently ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "mute person," from dumb (adj.) + -y (3). Extended by 1845 to "figure representing a person." Used in card games (originally whist) since 1736. Meaning "dolt, blockhead" is from 1796.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A silent person; a person who does not talk. 2 An unintelligent person. 3 A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet. 4 Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person. 5 A deliberately ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation" n. a person who does not talk [syn: silent person ] an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell , dope , boob , booby , pinhead ] a figure representing the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dummy \Dum"my\, a. [See Dumb .] Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine. Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch. Dummy car . See under Car .
Usage examples of dummy.
Even Budda would not have known the RPF was a dummy front - otherwise he would not have been after Murray.
Then, with Durand clicking at the dummy box that shielded the real secret, the robot began its slow march into the theater.
The governor who owns the house sends for me, has me show him that I can suck right, and sends me back under the dummy.
You need gis, gear, belts, wood floors, mirrors, heavy bags, speed bags, makiwaras, mats, Wing Chun dummies, shinais, bos and sais, dressings rooms with showers.
Straw dummies of Brienne and Lamoignon were burned night after night, and on the Pont Neuf anyone not bowing to that popular totem, the statue of Henri IV, was manhandled.
They have dummy explosives on hand to teach rookies recognition and handling.
San Francisco had written to warn him that the Railroad might be able to take advantage of a technicality, and by pretending that neither Quien Sabe nor Los Muertos were included in the appeal, attempt to put its dummy buyers in possession of the two ranches before the Supreme Court handed down its decision.
The pad was two stacks of mattresses roped together side by side, twenty in all to cushion the fall not of the dummy but of Tosca, when she leaped off the battlement in the end.
We even had dummy messages sent to Captain Richard from Admiral Tunner through Captain Gray, so Richard would be lulled into thinking another officer knew about the unidentified submarine.
At their last meeting they had fitted the second dress--which turned out to be a vapory summer house-frock or morning wrapper--over the dummy, and opinions were divided as to its equality with the first.
Seen beside Yeddo himself, the dummy shape was all the more remarkable.
The fire blazed and Maxie crouched on his haunches beside the dummy, laid his rifle beside him, pulled a strip of biltong from his pouch and started to chew on it.
And ten-year-old Marga with those braids and that face that rose like a fat full moon, what gave her the right to look upon Oskar as a dummy to be dressed, combed, brushed, adjusted, and lectured at by the hour?
She interrupted him by rushing at him as you would rush at a tackling dummy, surrounding him, beginning to soak the suede jacket with all those overdue tears.
Before Vasquez dummied up, he told me Peaty always rubbed himthe wrong way.