something or someone used to trick or confuse people, especially something or someone that is not what they appear to be:
They use electrically powered duck decoys known as "robo ducks".
- When a driver sees a patrol car, they don't know if it's a real police officer or if it's a decoy.
- They used a girl hitch-hiker as the decoy to get him to stop.
- The officer arrested a bike thief after planting "decoy" bikes around the city.
- The spinning decoys try to mimic the flashing of a bird's wings, luring waterfowl toward the decoy.
- affect
- air guitar
- assume
- believe
- bluff someone into something/doing something
- changeling
- cry
- false name
- falsifiable
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- phony-baloney
- play at something phrasal verb
- play possum idiom
- play something out phrasal verb
- playact
- professed
- purport
- quack
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- Flares are canisters of magnesium that burst into very bright, very hot flame to decoy infrared receivers away from the plane.
- They would try to decoy the enemy towards some of the hidden groups, where they would be outnumbered.
- The plan is that Marie decoys the victim into a position that will give Bobbie plenty of time to take aim.
- Cats often pretend to sleep to decoy their prey, then suddenly spring on it.
- He decoyed the pheasants by leaving peas.
- about turn! idiom
- about-face
- bear
- branch
- branch off phrasal verb
- break
- deflect
- do an about-turn
- excursive
- excursively
- flippy
- glance off (something) phrasal verb
- reverse
- slew
- someone's back is turned idiom
- swerve
- turn (something) around phrasal verb
- turn off phrasal verb
- turn over phrasal verb
- wheel
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