dummy
noun
an imitation, representation, or copy of something, such as for display, testing, or use as a stage prop.
dummies
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pluralof dummy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof dummy (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
dummynounan imitation, representation, or copy of something, such as for display, testing, or use as a stage prop.
Example Sentences
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His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Later on, the contestants had to put their doubts and suspicions aside for the day's challenge - in a creepy room full of headless dummies, which needed their Celebrity Traitor heads reattached.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
These people are craven dummies, but they do make up a good swath of Canada’s eligible voters.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025
Baldwin’s team asserted it was Kenney who co-mingled real bullets with dummies — an allegation that Kenney has denied, including while testifying Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2024
"Intern Deere, you may not be an expert in wax dummies, but you are an expert in medical diagnosis, and you did examine the body of Sandy McSouthers. Correct?"
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
