Dummy

Dummy may refer to:

Dolls

• Mannequin, a model of the human body used for various purposes
• A puppet used as a prop for ventriloquism

People

• Dummy (nickname), a list of people
• Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788-1863), the pseudonym of a man accused of being a witch in 19th century Essex, England

Publishing

• For Dummies, a series of instructional/reference books with the distinctive yellow and black cover published by John Wiley & Sons

Games and sports

• In the card game of contract bridge, the partner of the player who wins the auction
• Dummy (football), an association football (soccer), rugby league and rugby union ruse
• Dummy pass, in rugby league football

Entertainment

Films:

• Dummy (1979 film), a 1979 TV movie starring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino
• Dummy (film), a 2002 drama film/comedy film
• Dummy (2008 film), a low-budget horror film costarring Aaron Taylor-Johnson
• Dummy (2009 film), a coming-of-age drama starring Emma Catherwood
• Dummy, a short film by Kira Muratova

Other:

• Dummy (album), the 1994 debut album of Portishead
• Dummy (comics), a fictional character from the comic book X-Men
• Dummy (DC Comics), a fictional character from DC Comics
• "The Dummy", an episode of The Twilight Zone
• "Dummy" (Pushing Daisies episode), The second episode of the first season of "Pushing Daisies"

Linguistics

• Various types of syntactic expletive, forms required grammatically but which contribute nothing to meaning, including:
  • Dummy pronoun, such as it in the sentence it is good to relax
  • Dummy auxiliary, such as do in some English sentences; see do-support

Military

• Dummy round, a round of ammunition that is completely inert
• Military dummy, fake military equipment used for deception
• Paradummy, a fake paratrooper used in World War II

Other uses

• Pacifier, called a dummy or soother in some countries

See also

• All pages with titles containing Dummy
• Crash test dummy, used for automotive testing
• Dummy candidate, someone who stands for election with no intention of winning
• Dummy corporation, an entity created as a front or cover
• Dummy purchaser, a type of agent
• Skeleton (computer science) or dummy code, not used in the final product, but left in to avoid creating bugs
• Dummy data, data used as a placeholder or for testing purposes only
• Dummy file, files used to fit the space in data optical discs
• Dummy load, a device used to simulate an electrical load, usually for testing purposes
• Dummy or filler text, randomly generated text
• Dummy variable, in math, a free and bound variable
• Dummy variable (statistics), also known as indicator variable, only taking the values 0 and 1 and used in regression analysis
• Steam dummy, a steam engine made to resemble a railroad passenger coach
• Dumb (disambiguation)
• Dum (disambiguation)
• Dummy Lake (disambiguation)