dummy - a figure representing the human form figure - a model of a bodily form (especially of a person); "he made a figure of Santa Claus" lay figure - dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body manakin, mannequin, mannikin, manikin, form - a life-size dummy used to display clothes
ventriloquist's dummy - a wooden dummy into which a ventriloquist projects the voice