Dummy may refer to:

Dolls

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

People

  • Dummy (nickname), 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 (band), a band from Los Angeles
  • 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
  • Placeholder word

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