Meaning of HOAX
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- [n] something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- [v] subject to a palyful hoax or joke
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| | Synonyms: | | dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, play a joke on, pull someone's leg, put-on |
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| | See Also: | | chicanery, cozen, deceive, delude, goldbrick, guile, lead on, Piltdown hoax, Piltdown man, shenanigan, trickery, wile | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Hoax\, n. [Prob. contr. fr. hocus, in hocus-pocus.]
A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or
story; a practical joke. --Macaulay.
\Hoax\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hoaxed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hoaxing}.]
To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to
impose upon sportively. --Lamb.
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| | Related Terms: | | bamboozle, befool, beguile, betray, bluff, cajole, cheat, cheat on, chicane, circumvent, clinquant, con, con game, conjure, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, deception, defraud, delude, diddle, double-cross, dummy, dupe, fake, fakement, flam, flimflam, fool, forestall, forgery, frame-up, fraud, game, gammon, get around, gull, gyp, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, imitation, impostor, imposture, juggle, junk, let down, mock, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, paste, phony, pigeon, pinchbeck, play one false, put something over, put-on, put-up job, rip-off, scam, sell, sham, shoddy, simulacrum, snow, snow job, spoof, string along, swindle, take in, tinsel, trick, two-time, whited sepulcher |
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