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ALL meanings of hoax

hoax
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  • noun hoax deception: joke 1
  • noun hoax deception: serious 1
  • transitive verb hoax deceive by hoax 1
  • noun hoax A humorous or malicious deception. 1
  • noun hoax something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax. 1
  • verb with object hoax to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink. 1
  • countable noun hoax A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that there is a bomb somewhere when there is not, or that a picture is genuine when it is not. 0
  • noun hoax a deception, esp a practical joke 0
  • verb hoax to deceive or play a joke on (someone) 0
  • noun hoax a trick or fraud, esp. one meant as a practical joke 0
  • verb transitive hoax to deceive with a hoax 0
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