Dummy

Dummy may refer to:

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• A mannequin
• The figure used by a ventriloquist
• A baby's dummy – the British English equivalent word for a pacifier
• Something that is not real; a forgery
• Something that features certain aspects of a real object that require repeated or straining exposure to testing, but does not feature certain other aspects of a real object that would pose a problem to such testing; outstanding features of test dummies are increased availability and decreased cost over the real object; examples are test dummies for physical tests such as car crashes, falls, fracture testing, firearm shots or imaging methods.
• In the card game contract bridge, the partner of the player who wins the auction.
• The 1994 album by Portishead, see Dummy (album)
• Dummy, the 2002 movie.
• In the software industry, the practice of removing all references to a particular object or feature that won't be part of the final product, but leaving the actual code as part of the program, in order to avoid creating new bugs.
• ...For Dummies a publication series of instructional books.