mannikin
- n a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
- n a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- n a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- A cartoon called Island Hopping shows a steel-spring mannikin stepping triumphantly toward the Jap home fortress over Pacific islands which are not all terra firma (see cut).
- Inspector Bony discovered a bright-eyed pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop and a cardboard box containing gems valued at $78,000 which Stavisky .
- He rigged up a blocky mannikin with swiveled arms and wired innards.