Новый большой англо-русский словарь - hoax
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hoax
1. мистификация, розыгрыш; трюк to play a hoax on smb. —- разыграть (провести, одурачить) кого-л. 2. обман, надувательство; ложный слух, "утка"; ложная тревога a literary hoax —- литературная подделка или мистификация 3. мистифицировать, разыгрывать; подшутить 4. обманывать, надувать, водить за нос; пользоваться чьей-л. доверчивостью even the experts were hoaxed —- даже специалисты были введены в заблуждение (сбиты с толку)
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n. & v. --n. a humorous or malicious deception; a practical joke. --v.tr. deceive (a person) with a hoax. Derivatives hoaxer n. Etymology: 18th c.: prob. contr. f. HOCUS ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
I. transitive verb Etymology: probably contraction of hocus Date: circa 1796 to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous • ~er noun II. noun Date: 1808 1. an act intended to trick or dupe ; imposture 2. something accepted or established by fraud or fabrication ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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(hoaxes) 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. He denied making the hoax call but was convicted after a short trial. N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~1 n 1 a false warning about something dangerous or bad (a bomb hoax | hoax call (=a telephone call that gives false information)) 2 an attempt to make people believe something that is not true (The Hitler Diaries were an elaborate hoax.) ~2 v to trick someone by means of a hoax - hoaxer n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1796, probably alt. of hocus "conjurer, juggler" (1640), or directly from hocus-pocus. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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