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Dupe
| Dupe Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Dupe?
[n] a person who is tricked or swindled
[v] fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dupe: befool |
cod |
fool |
gull |
put on |
put one across |
put one over |
slang |
take in |
victim
Related Terms | Find terms related to Dupe: agent |
amanuensis |
ancilla |
apple-polisher |
appliance |
ass-licker |
babe |
backscratcher |
backslapper |
baffle |
baggage agent |
bamboozle |
befool |
beguile |
betray |
bilk |
bluff |
boob |
bootlick |
bootlicker |
brownie |
brown-nose |
business agent |
butt |
byword |
byword of reproach |
cajole |
catch |
Charlie McCarthy |
cheat |
cheat on |
chicane |
child |
child of nature |
chump |
circumvent |
claim agent |
clawback |
clerk |
clone |
commercial agent |
commission agent |
con |
conjure |
consignee |
contrivance |
copy |
counterpart |
courtier |
cozen |
creature |
cringer |
customer agent |
deceive |
defraud |
delude |
derision |
device |
diddle |
ditto |
double |
double-cross |
dove |
dummy |
duplicate |
duplication |
dust |
facsimile |
factor |
fair game |
fall guy |
fawner |
fed |
Federal |
federal agent |
figure of fun |
flatterer |
flimflam |
flunky |
fool |
footlicker |
forestall |
freight agent |
functionary |
game |
gammon |
gazingstock |
geminate |
general agent |
get around |
goat |
go-between |
groveler |
gudgeon |
gull |
handmaid |
handmaiden |
handshaker |
hectograph |
helot |
hick |
hoax |
hocus-pocus |
hoodwink |
hornswaggle |
humbug |
implement |
infant |
infatuate |
ingeminate |
ingenue |
innocent |
instrument |
insurance agent |
interagent |
intermediary |
intermediate |
intermedium |
jackal |
jest |
jestingstock |
job |
joke |
juggle |
kid |
kowtower |
lackey |
lamb |
land agent |
laughingstock |
law agent |
led captain |
let down |
lever |
lickspit |
lickspittle |
literary agent |
loan agent |
lout |
manifold |
mark |
mealymouth |
mechanism |
mediator |
medium |
mere child |
microcopy |
microfilm |
midwife |
mimeo |
mimeograph |
minion |
mislead |
mock |
mockery |
model |
monkey |
mug |
multigraph |
multiply by two |
news agent |
noble savage |
oaf |
official |
organ |
outmaneuver |
outreach |
outsmart |
outwit |
overreach |
parliamentary agent |
passenger agent |
patsy |
pawn |
peon |
Photostat |
pigeon |
play one false |
plaything |
press agent |
puppet |
purchasing agent |
pushover |
put on |
put something over |
quadruplicate |
real estate agent |
redouble |
reduplicate |
repeat |
repetition |
replica |
replicate |
replication |
representation |
reproduce |
reproduction |
rip off |
rook |
rube |
sales agent |
sap |
secretary |
serf |
servant |
simple soul |
slave |
snooker |
snow |
spaniel |
special agent |
stat |
station agent |
steward |
stock |
stooge |
string along |
stultify |
suck |
sucker |
swindle |
sycophant |
take |
take in |
target |
theatrical agent |
ticket agent |
timeserver |
toad |
toady |
tool |
toy |
trace |
transcribe |
travel agent |
trick |
triplicate |
truckler |
trusting soul |
tufthunter |
twin |
two-time |
unsophisticate |
vehicle |
victim |
victimize |
walking delegate |
Xerox |
yes-man |
yokel
See Also | betray |
butt |
chump |
deceive |
easy mark |
fall guy |
fool |
goat |
gull |
human |
individual |
kid |
lamb |
laughingstock |
lead astray |
mark |
mortal |
mug |
patsy |
person |
pull the leg of |
schlemiel |
shlemiel |
sitting duck |
soft touch |
somebody |
someone |
soul |
stooge |
sucker
Dupe In Webster's Dictionary
\Dupe\, n. [F., prob. from Prov. F. dupe, dube; of unknown
origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily
caught. Cf. Armor. houp['e]rik hoopoe, a man easily deceived.
Cf. also {Gull}, {Booby}.]
One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull;
as, the dupe of a schemer.
\Dupe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Duped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Duping}.] [Cf. F. duper, fr. dupe. See {Dupe}, n.]
To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's
credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits. --
Coleridge.
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