DUMMY

Dummy

Dummy is the debut album of the Bristol-based group Portishead. Released in 22 August 1994 on Go! Discs, the album earned critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularising the trip-hop genre and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Although it achieved modest chart success overseas, it peaked at No. 2 on the UK Album Chart and saw two of its three singles reach No. 13. The album was certified gold in 1997 and has sold two million copies in Europe. As of September 2011, the album has sold 825,000 copies in the United Kingdom and is certified double-platinum.

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dummy

Noun

  1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  2. An unintelligent person.
    Don't be such a dummy!
  3. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  4. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
    To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
  5. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
    The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
  6. A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
    The baby wants her dummy.
  7. A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
  8. A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
  9. A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
    The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
  10. An unused parameter or value.
    If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

Verb

  1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
    The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
  2. To feint


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