That brainless state induced in a technology user (usually computer-related) when a more seasoned professional explains things far enough beyond their comprehension that they stop even trying. The minds of users in dummy mode will wander to other topics (i.e. "my bum hurts") and they will follow all but the most obviously counter-intuitive directions without question. Most won't even remember what they were directed to do when they come out of it (usually within half an hour).
Dummy mode can be intentionally induced by throwing together a lot of complex, multiple syllable terms and acronyms that vaguely relate to the situation at hand as a response to a question.
Dummy mode can be intentionally induced by throwing together a lot of complex, multiple syllable terms and acronyms that vaguely relate to the situation at hand as a response to a question.
The secretary in accounting wouldn't give me her IP address, so I started talking about quantum interference on the cyclical redundancy checking protocols. Went straight into dummy mode.
by BottleLiving June 25, 2011
by hearl jones July 02, 2016
(Noun)1. A person who through their own stupidity, has the the same mental capacity as someone intoxicated on rum. 2. Intoxicated on rum, immediately prior to unconsciousness. Background: 1500-1700's Pirates becoming severely intoxicated on rum.
Oh my, looks like we got another Rum dummy on our hands, slurring her speech and pukking between words. Someone go hide the rum.
by Reginald Nethanial Hawthorne Jackson III January 17, 2005
by CorruptionDee May 07, 2003
by vinnny August 18, 2006
by SubNetWrk June 26, 2018
getting extremely stupid drunk off of 1800 jose cuervo tequila, usually pertaining or related to the hyphy movement through slang, music, or more.
by joey corr April 29, 2007