ventriloquist's dummy

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   a wooden dummy into which a ventriloquist projects the voice

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Questions about ventriloquist's dummy

What does ventriloquist's dummy mean?

ventriloquist's dummy means "a wooden dummy into which a ventriloquist projects the voice".

Is ventriloquist's dummy a common word?

ventriloquist's dummy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.