I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dummy run
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Do a dummy run to see how long it will take.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spit the dummy
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a dressmaker's dummy
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She's no dummy .
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That's what I just said, dummy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dummy has all the restrictive properties of a real job but no time content.
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Babies she had seen before had fat fleshy faces that spread from a central dummy .
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Briers threw two dummies and sprinted outside Henry Paul for his second try.
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He just walked around like a dummy with the rest of us with an awkward scope on his rifle.
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I bundle the blind dummy out.
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It was a perfectly ordinary leg from a shop dummy .
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The dummy took three weeks' work by a team of volunteers, mostly part-time and helping when they could.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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dummy rifles
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Semionov threatened the pilot with a dummy hand grenade and forced him to land the plane.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By then Ward was coming down on to the track, his false arm and dummy hand hanging limp at his side.
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Grayson dropped a ball, Kevin Maggs ran on a dummy run from the scrum and Catt was through for the try.
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He claims that his dummy head does likewise.
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It is a particular example of a no-operation or dummy instruction.
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The candidates had been asked to supply a dummy paper with a lead story and some idea of content.