dummies

Meaning of dummies

noun
  1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  2. An unintelligent person.
    Don't be such a dummy!
  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.
    To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
  5. A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
  6. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
    The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
  7. A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
    The baby wants her dummy.
  8. A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
  9. A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
    The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
  10. An unused parameter or value.
    If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
  11. A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
  12. A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
verb
  1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
    The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
  2. To feint.

Information about dummies

  • The singular form of dummies is: dummy.
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Hyphenation of dummies

dum-mies

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • dummies is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

dummies synonyms

Meaning :

mannequin, marionette, juke

Anagrams of dummies

mediums

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