The Meaning of decoy

• (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
• (n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
• (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
• (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
• (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

Synonyms

steerer , bait , lure

Rhymes

ahoy , alloy , alroy , annoy , attaboy , bellboy , bolshoi , boy , boye , brayboy , broy , busboy , carboy , choi , choy , cloy , convoy , corduroy , cowboy , coy , coye , croix , croy , deboy , dejoy , deploy , destroy , doi , doughboy , elroy , employ , enjoy , fauntleroy , fitzroy , flournoy , floy , foy , foye , gilroy , goy , highboy , hoi , hoy , hoye , illinois , iroquois , joy , joye , kilroy , knoy , kroy , laboy , lacroix , lafoy , lamboy , lavoy , leroy , loy , loye , malloy , mccloy , mccoy , mcelroy , mcilroy , mcvoy , milroy , moy , oi , oie , oy , oye , playboy , ploy , polloi , pomeroy , quemoy , redeploy , roi , roy , roye , savoy , scheu , schoolboy , sgroi , soy , stoy , tolstoy , tomboy , toy , troy , underemploy , unemploy , woy , yoy