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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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a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick: The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax. hoax call He'd made a hoax call claiming to be the president. Compare. put-on US informal. fraud. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cheating & tricking. anti-fraud. bad faith.
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 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 often intended as a practical joke or to cause embarrassment, or to provoke social or political change by raising people's awareness of something. It can also emerge from a marketing or advertising purpose.
A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that a picture is genuine when it is not.
Definitions of hoax. noun. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on. see more see less. verb. subject to a playful hoax or joke. synonyms: play a joke on, pull someone's leg. see more see less. Pronunciation. US. /hoʊks/ UK. /həʊks/ Cite this entry. Style:
Hoax definition: something intended to deceive or defraud. See examples of HOAX used in a sentence.
