Topic: OTHER SPORTS
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| Date: | 1500-1600 |
| Language: | Dutch |
| Origin: | de cooi 'the cage' (= structure of bars for keeping animals in) |
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de‧coy
[countable]
[countable]1 someone or something that is used to trick someone into going somewhere or doing something, so that you can catch them, attack them etc : Officer Langley acted as a decoy to catch the rapist.
Officer Langley acted as a decoy to catch the rapist.2DSO a model of a bird used to attract wild birds so that you can watch them or shoot them
—decoy verb [transitive]
verb [transitive]