hoax

[hoax]

If you put on big fake feet, stomp through your muddy backyard and tell everyone you saw Bigfoot fixing a steak on your grill, you are playing a hoax on your friends.

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A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

Noun
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Verb
subject to a palyful hoax or joke


n.
A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

v. t.
To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.


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.

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.

A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.

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