The word "decoy" is correct and is used regularly in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or thing used to distract attention away from something else, usually with the intention of tricking someone. For example: The police set up a decoy vehicle to try to draw the suspect away from the scene of the crime.
In the 14th minute Aird let fly from the edge of the box after using Smith as a decoy but his drive hit the side-netting as Radoslaw Cierzniak scrambled across his goal to cover.
And furthermore, what role is played by princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, and their masterful decoy hats?
The four computers Snowden has been carrying with him since he left Hawaii were not jam-packed with secret files after all; they were a decoy.
As Miller carried the ball into the left side of the Falkirk area and Naismith made a decoy run that teased a couple of defenders out of position, the striker relied entirely on his own ability to smash a left-foot shot from 12 yards out to the left of goal past the exposed Olejnik.
Interscope, a record label, is thought to have planted a decoy when it launched Eminem's recent album, "The Eminem Show".Counterfeiting is also growing in size and sophistication.
A slight but precise change in the ejection tempo of the decoy flares would direct those missiles towards the flame, not the aircraft.Such tricks may be handy in dealing with unreliable allies as well as foes, but they can also hamper Western efforts to contain risk in unstable countries.
How to identify a decoy dressed up as a warhead, or a warhead wrapped in a decoy?
Mr Blass was put in a camouflage unit and impressed his comrades with his skill at making decoy tanks.
A third "decoy" item, which is not quite as good as the other two, can make the choice easier and more pleasurable, according to a new study using fMRI carried out by Akshay Rao, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota.
The intercepting missile refused to separate from its booster rocket, so no collision was attempted; and in a separate setback, the decoy balloon did not inflate.The Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation (BMDO) is still at an early stage in its programme of 19 tests.
The first one, in October 1999, appeared to be successful but was later pronounced a partial failure after it turned out that the interceptor at first homed in on the decoy, not the real target.
