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dummy
noun- a fool; a mentally retarded person UK, 1796
- Okay. I’m nobody’s dummy. I’m everybody’s dummy. I believe everything I read, see, and hear. — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 185, 1976
- Nobody did it better than a dummy, and it wasn’t a nice thing to say but it was like that sometimes[.] — John King, White Trash, p. 65, 2001
- a mute US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 797, 1962
- a representative of a corrupt police officer in insurance fraud UK
- The dummy was someone known to the bogey [policeman], whom he would recommend to the assessor as having provided vital information leading to the recovery of the stolen property[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 75, 1956
- a feigned injury or illness US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 66, 1992
- a substance other than narcotics sold as narcotics US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 113, 1992
- a solitary confinement cell in prison NEW ZEALAND
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 41, 1998
- a train that transports railway workers US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 262, 1946
- a wallet UK
From an earlier use as “a pocket-book”. - My mate took out his dumie [dummy] and took out a jacks (= a £5 note) — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 124, 1958
- the penis US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 63, 1950
▶ beat your dummy
(used of a male) to masturbate US- I’ll bet some of those businessmen are licking the glass and beating their dummies for all they’re worth. — Adam Film World, pp. 63–64, 1977
▶ on the dummy
quiet US- I knew the punk was rank, but Jackson was crazy about him so I stayed on the dummy — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, p. 122, 1971
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