hoax
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hoax![]() ![]() Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Hoax \Hoax\, n. [Prob. contr. fr. hocus, in hocus-pocus.] A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Hoax \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. [1913 Webster] Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hoax
n 1: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended
to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence,
dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on]
v 1: subject to a playful hoax or joke [syn: hoax, pull
someone's leg, play a joke on]
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 78 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 Matching Word(s) Hox Hoa Coax Hoar coax hoar
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