hoax

hoax
    n 1: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended
         to gain an advantage [syn: {fraud}, {fraudulence},
         {dupery}, {hoax}, {humbug}, {put-on}]
    v 1: subject to a playful hoax or joke [syn: {hoax}, {pull
         someone's leg}, {play a joke on}]
    

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.
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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.
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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