Hoax
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English
Verb
Hoax (third-person singular simple present hoaxes, present participle hoaxing, simple past and past participle hoaxed)
- (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
Derived terms
Noun
Hoax (plural Hoaxes)- Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
Verbs for Hoax
accept—; conceive—; contrive—; denounce —; espy—; frame—; impose — upon; manufacture—; perpetrate—; plan—; practise —; reveal—; spring—; vend—; —amuses; —deceives; —mystifies; —ridicules; —succeeds; —scares; —victimizes.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
Reportedly a form of hocus (though there is no evidence of hocus being used as a verb).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /həʊks/
Audio (UK) noicon (file) - (US) IPA: /hoʊks/
Audio (US) noicon (file) - Rhymes: -əʊks
- Homophone: hokes
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