Dictionary  de•coyPronunciation: ( —n.dē'koi, di-koi'; —v.di-koi'), [key] —n. 1. a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like. 2. anything used as a lure. 3. a trained bird or other animal used to entice game into a trap or within gunshot. 4. an artificial bird, as a painted wooden duck, used for the same purpose. 5. a pond into which wild fowl are lured for capture. 6. an object capable of reflecting radar waves, used as a spurious aircraft, missile, chaff, etc., for the deception of radar detectors. —v.t. to lure by or as if by a decoy: They decoyed the ducks to an area right in front of the blind. —v.i. to become decoyed: Ducks decoy more easily than most other waterfowl. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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