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How to pronounce dummy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dummy up
Type of make, produce, create


dummy up the books that are to be published.
Type Words
Synonyms blank, blank shell
Type of cartridge
Type Words
Synonyms silent person
Type of mute, deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute
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Synonyms boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, pinhead
Type of simple, simpleton
Type Words
Type of figure
Has types mannikin, form, lay figure, manakin, manikin, mannequin, ventriloquist's dummy
Type Words


a dummy corporation.

Examples of dummy

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If declarer ducked in dummy, Siebert would cash two club tricks to set the hand.
From the stltoday.com
His diagonal, disorientating dummy run was integral to Barcelona's opening goal.
From the independent.co.uk
He crossed to dummy with the queen of trumps and led a club, won by East's king.
From the stltoday.com
I've been testing Cake Premium, using a dummy portfolio provided by the company.
From the online.wsj.com
From scrap wood, Seidler fashioned a roping dummy behind his platoon's barracks.
From the omaha.com
Dinky dummy by Lulic to let the ball run to Radu, who then gives it back to him.
From the guardian.co.uk
After a diamond lead, declarer can get home by discarding a club from the dummy.
From the nytimes.com
People burn a dummy of a rabbit in Palmela, near Lisbon over the Easter weekend.
From the guardian.co.uk
Mr. Bush was simply an oaf, or a tool or a ventriloquist's dummy in their hands.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • A person who does not talk
  • Having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation"
  • Make a dummy of; "dummy up the books that are to be published"
  • Dumbbell: an ignorant or foolish person
  • A figure representing the human form
  • Blank: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
  • Dummy is the 1994 debut album of the Bristol-based group Portishead. It reached #2 on the UK Album Chart and #79 on the Billboard 200 chart, going gold in 1997 .
  • Dummy is a fictional mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in New X-Men #135, created by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.
  • Dummy is the name of two fictional supervillains in DC Comics. The first Dummy debuted in Leading Comics #1 (Winter 1941).