One night a police officer was staking out a particularly rowdy bar for possible violations of the drink-driving laws. At closing time, he saw a man stumble out of the bar, trip on the curb, and try his keys on five different cars before he found his. Then, he sat in the front seat fumbling around with his keys for several minutes.

Everyone left the bar and drove off. Finally, he started his engine and began to pull away.

The police officer was waiting for him. He stopped the driver, read him his rights and administered the Breathalyzer test. The results showed a reading of 0.0.

The puzzled officer demanded to know how that could be.

The driver replied, “Tonight I’m the decoy.”

sleitli off toppik.

Steht mittlerweile im Wörterbuch.

I consider shill = decoy to be incorrect, including as used in #1. Look more carefully at the definitions and examples in #0.

shill = der Lockvogel, der Komplize: somewhere between wrong and misleading.