About The Word Hoax
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Hoax
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What's The Definition Of Hoax?
[n] something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
[v] subject to a palyful hoax or joke Synonyms | Synonyms for Hoax: dupery | fraud | fraudulence | humbug | play a joke on | pull someone's leg | put-on Related Terms | Find terms related to Hoax: 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 See Also | chicanery | cozen | deceive | delude | goldbrick | guile | lead on | Piltdown hoax | Piltdown man | shenanigan | trickery | wile Hoax In Webster's Dictionary \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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