Definition of "manikin" [man•i•kin]

• A man short in stature. (noun)
• A mannequin. (noun)
• An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I'd always wondered if there was a term for this kind of thing, and it turns out there is: 'manikin'."
• "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."
• "Then it is something that you can also keep around after Halloween, this is something that every gamer would love to have set up in his theater room, you could order a cheap manikin and put the master chief costume on it for display all year round."