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The answer DECOY has 144 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of decoy in various dictionaries:
noun - a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
noun - something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
verb - lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Shill |
| Fake drake |
| Duck hunter's ploy |
| Wooden duck |
| Hunter's lure |
| Duck that's not a duck |
| Spurious aircraft |
| Undercover cop, maybe |
| Undercover cop, at times |
| Duck hunter's lure |
| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| It's a person who lures another into danger, or an artificial bird used by hunters to lure game |
| A spy who lures another into a trap, or just a wooden duck |
| Fake wooden bird used by hunters to attract ducks |
| "Deke", a hockey move that fakes a defender out of position, is short for this word |
| It's the enticement seen here |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| a pond from which narrow netted channels lead, into which wild duck may be enticed for capture. |
| a bird or mammal, or an imitation of one, used by hunters to attract other birds or mammals. |
| A bird or mammal, or an imitation of one, used by hunters to attract other birds or mammals. |
| A pond from which narrow netted channels lead, into which wild duck may be enticed for capture. |
| Lure or entice (a person or animal) away from their intended course, typically into a trap. |
| a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) |
| something used to lure victims into danger |
| lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy |
| something or someone used to trick or confuse other people or animals into doing something, especially something dangerous: |
| something used to trick or confuse a person or animal: |
| Geographic Matches |
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| Decoy, Saint Catherine, JAMAICA |
| Decoy, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES |
| Decoy, NEVADA, UNITED STATES |
| Decoy, Clarendon, JAMAICA |
| Decoy description |
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| A decoy is usually a person, device, or event meant as a distraction, to hide what an individual or a group might be looking for. Decoys have been used for centuries most notably in game hunting, but also in wartime and in the committing or resolving of crimes.* The term decoy may refer to two distinct devices, both used for hunting wildfowl. One is a long cone-shaped wickerwork tunnel installed on a small pond to catch wild ducks. After the ducks settled on the pond, a small, trained dog would herd the birds into the tunnel. The catch was formerly sent to market for food, but now these are used only to catch ducks to be ringed and released: see ornithology. The word decoy, also originally found in English as "coy", derives from the Dutch de Kooi (the cage) and dates back to the early 17th century, when this type of duck trap was introduced to England from the Netherlands. As "decoy" came more commonly to signify a person or a device than a pond with a cage-trap, the latter acquired th |