Definition of: decoy

(di·koi′, dē′·koi) noun
1. One who or that which allures or is intended to allure into danger or temptation.
2. A swindler's accomplice.
3. A lure; a bird or animal, or the likeness of one, used to lure game into a snare or net or within gunshot.
4. An enclosed place into which game may be lured for capture.
5. Mil. A dummy military installation designed to distract enemy fire from a real position or installation, or to delude the foe as to the point of one's own attack.
—v.t. & v.i. (dē′koi) To lure or be lured into danger, a snare, etc. [Earlier coy <Du. kooi a cage <L cavea <cavus hollow]
—de·coy′er noun
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