ALL meanings of hoax
hoax
H h - 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