English > hoax: 2 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. |
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| Synonyms | fraud, fraudulence, dupery, humbug, put-on |
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| Narrower | goldbrick | Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless |
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| Broader | trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
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| Spanish | bulo, camelo, engañifa, engaño, filfa, fraude, mistificación, pastrana, patraña, trampa |
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| Catalan | fraudulència, innocentada, jugada, mistificació, trampa, truc |
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| Verbs | hoax | subject to a playful hoax or joke |
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