NOUN
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
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a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
she was too fat to be a mannequin - a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
How To Use manikin In A Sentence
- How much easier, and how reassuring, if they could all simply be understood as primitive, unevolved manikins. Times, Sunday Times
- That's if you include my co-workers, our American Red Cross trainer, Haseeb Durrani , and the 10 or so crash dummies they're called "manikins" that Mr. Durrani brought along for practicing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions. CPR Test Gives Me Chest Pain
- From time to time, he visited the manikin and presented him with scrolls written in a secret language to provide him with a library in the fastness of his attic retreat.
- Had the clumsy wheel-chair, heavy with its own momentum, sailed into space like one of those ridiculous flying contraptions in a James Bond film, the little manikin secure among his gadgets, ready to pull the lever and sport wings? She Closed Her Eyes
- The Navy trains medics for chemical, biological and radiological casualty preparedness using immersive hospital drills with manikins and scenarios with human actors. Kathy Guillermo: How Not to Save Lives
- I'd always wondered if there was a term for this kind of thing, and it turns out there is: 'manikin'. Blind pigginess
- So I felt sorry for her, people passing her on the sidewalk like she was a manikin who needed a life but all she got was stillness, which is a form of nothing. Unaswered E-mails Over a Cup of Coffee and a Microwaved Danish
- This consists of an introductory seminar including demonstration of pelvic examination on a manikin and an opportunity for students to practise this under supervision.
- Joanna at the wonderful Morbid Anatomy blog posted this exquisite ivory anatomical manikin, circa 1500-1700. Boing Boing
- Most ambulance trusts and all fire and rescue services use her 'bariatric manikins', which weigh up to 41 stone. Times, Sunday Times
