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• Because a "decoy duck" is not a duck, "decoy" is an alienans adjective.From the entry alienans
• A Pennsylvania man was charged with jacklighting, allegedly shining his truck headlights onto a police deer decoy.2019 December 12, Maryland Department of Natural Resources press…. From the entry jacklighting
• The attention of the would-be captee is drawn by a decoy bird which resides in a side compartment to the trap.2012, J.C. Jeremy Hobson, A Practical Guide To Modern Gamekeeping. From the entry captee
• The moon is still too bright for frog hunting and Alice, our decoy bull-froggess, seems to be sort of peaked.1933 May 12, the “Little Dogs”, “Following the Big Dogs of the Sport World”, in Marshall Evening Messenger, number 241, Marshall, Tex.…. From the entry froggess
• Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make a good hooter or cawer.1919 June, The Game Breeder and Sportsman, volume 15, number 3; page 84 of the compiled volumes 14-15. From the entry cawer
• And yes, I'm aware of Conrad's decidedly unatheistic afterthought, in the very next sentence from this quote: “Or else decoyed.” It's from The Shadow Line.2015, Patton Oswalt, Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry unatheistic
• Trying to sneak a decoy within sight of a tom's roost tree can have you eating a McGriddle long before the drive-through stops serving breakfast.2008, Field & Stream, page 93. From the entry McGriddle
• There was one instance of a male observed copulating with a decoy while a live female was on the singing ground 8 feet away .1952, John Warren Aldrich, U.S. Fish, Wildlife Service, Investigations of Woodcock, Snipe and Rails in 1951. From the entry singing ground
• As a decoy cop in the Street Crime Unit, Salpeter made himself as muggable as possible by dressing up as, among other things, Hasidic Jews and drunken businessmen.2007, Michael Benson, Robert Mladinich, Lethal Embrace. From the entry muggable
• The others were decoys, raised by the people to confuse the "traitors of Ch'u and the troops of Ch'in who would have desecrated the Corpse of Ch'ü Yüan."1980, Laurence A. Schneider, A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent, University of California Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Ch'in
• A decoy owl mounted on a pole in connection with some good hooting or cawing surely will keep the guns hot in a place where crows ar abundant.1919 June, The Game Breeder and Sportsman, volume 15, number 3; page 84 of the compiled volumes 14-15. From the entry cawer

Meaning of decoy

1. noun A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
2. noun A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
3. noun Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.

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How do you use decoy in a sentence?

Decoy is used as a noun and verb. For example: “As they were being decoyed, the rescue team carried the hostage and quietly slipped away.”

What is a short sentence with decoy?

“to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net”

What does decoy mean?

Decoy means a person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.