Dummy Explained

Dummy may refer to:

Dolls

• Mannequin, a model of the human body
• Dummy (ventriloquism)
• Crash test dummy

People

• Dummy (nickname), any of several people with the nickname
• Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788–1863), one of the last people to be accused of being a witch in England

Arts and entertainment

Characters

• Dummy (Marvel Comics), from the comic book X-Men
• Dummy (DC Comics)

Films

• Dummy (1979 film), a TV movie starring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino
• Dummy (2002 film), a comedy/drama
• Dummy, a 2009 coming-of-age drama starring Emma Catherwood
• Dummy, a short film by Kira Muratova
• The Dummy (1917 film), an American silent drama
• The Dummy (1929 film), an American comedy

Music

• Dummy (album), 1994, by Portishead
• "Dummy", a song by 6ix9ine from the album Dummy Boy
• "Dummy!", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale by Toby Fox
• "Dummy", a song by Portugal. The Man from the album Chris Black Changed My Life
• "Dummy", a 2023 song by Keung To

Television

• "Dummy" (Pushing Daisies episode)
• "The Dummy", an episode of The Twilight Zone
• Dummy (TV series), a 2020 web comedy

Other

• Dummy, in contract bridge, the partner of the player who wins the auction, or that player's hand

Linguistics

• Dummy auxiliary, such as do in some English sentences
• Dummy pronoun, such as it in the sentence it is good to relax

Military

• Dummy round, a round of ammunition that is completely inert
• Military dummy, fake military equipment used for deception

Sport

• Dummy (football), an association football (soccer), rugby league and rugby union ruse
• Dummy pass, in rugby league football

Other uses

• Dummy Lake (disambiguation), any of several places
• Dummy sheet, a blank sheet folded as a pre-print newspaper test
• Dummy variable, another term for bound variable in mathematics
• Dummy variable (statistics), another term for binary variable in statistics
• Pacifier, called a dummy in some countries
• Steam dummy, a steam engine made to resemble a railroad passenger coach

See also

• • Dum (disambiguation)
• Dumb (disambiguation)
• For Dummies, an instructional/reference book series