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- Dictionaryhoax/həʊks/
noun
- 1. a humorous or malicious deception: "the evidence had been planted as part of an elaborate hoax"
verb
- 1. trick or deceive (someone).
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The meaning of HOAX is to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous. How to use hoax in a sentence.
HOAX definition: 1. a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is…. Learn more.
HOAX meaning: 1. a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is…. Learn more.
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. A series of bomb hoaxes has disrupted Christmas shopping in the city centre.
anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless. type of: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) verb. subject to a playful hoax or joke. synonyms: play a joke on, pull someone's leg.
Hoax definition: something intended to deceive or defraud. See examples of HOAX used in a sentence.
A hoax (plural: hoaxes) is a widely publicised falsehood created to deceive its audience with false and often astonishing information, with the either malicious or humorous intent of causing shock and interest in as many people as possible.
hoax. (hōks) n. 1. An act intended to deceive or trick. 2. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means. tr.v. hoaxed, hoax·ing, hoax·es. To deceive or cheat by using a hoax.
A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that a picture is genuine when it is not.
hoax. an act intended to make somebody believe something that is not true, especially something unpleasant. He was accused of using a bomb hoax to empty a rival restaurant. Detectives are still investigating the hoax calls. The emergency call turned out to be a hoax.
