DUMMY

'Dummy' may refer to:

★ Pacifier, a rubber, plastic, or silicone nipple given to an infant or other young child to suck upon

★ Military dummies, fake look-a-likes of the real stuff, constructed on purpose to deceive the enemy

★ Crash test dummy, a full-scale replica of a human being, weighted and articulated to simulate the behavior of a human body in an accident

★ Steam dummy, or ''dummy engine'', was a steam engine made to resemble a railroad passenger coach

★ Mannequin, model of the human body used for a variety of purposes

★ Ventriloquist's dummy

★ Forgery
In 'language and literature':

★ Dummy pronoun, formally ''expletive pronoun'' or ''pleonastic pronoun'', a type of pronoun used in non-pro-drop languages such as English

★ ''...for Dummies'', series of instructional books

★ A slang term for an idiot, derived from "dumb" or stupid

★ ''Dummy'' (magazine), a British music magazine
In 'sports':

★ In the card game contract bridge, the partner of the player who wins the auction

★ Dummy reversal, technique in contact bridge to draw the opponents' remaining trump cards

★ Dummy Hoy, an American center fielder in Major League Baseball

★ Dummy (football), a football (soccer) technique

★ Muk Yan Jong, a wooden dummy used in Chinese martial arts training
In 'entertainment':

★ Crash Test Dummies, a Canadian folk-rock band formed in the 1990s

★ ''Dummy'' (album), a 1994 album by Portishead

★ ''Dummy'' (film), a 2002 drama film/comedy film

★ "The Dummy", an episode of ''The Twilight Zone''

★ Dummy (comics), a fictional character from the comic book ''X-Men''
In 'programming, mathematics and electronics':

★ Dummy code, coding that's not used in the final product, but left in to avoid creating bugs

★ Dummy data, data in a database, computer memory, or other repository used as a placeholder or for testing purposes only

★ Dummy variable

★ Dummy load, a device used to simulate an electrical load, usually for testing purposes

★ Dummy file, files used to fit the space in data optical discs