Hoax

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hoax
       n : something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended
           to gain an advantage [syn: {fraud}, {fraudulence}, {dupery},
            {humbug}, {put-on}]
       v : subject to a palyful hoax or joke [syn: {pull someone's leg},
            {play a joke on}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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