fake

UK /feɪ̯k/ US /feɪ̯k/
verb 6noun 4adj 2

Definitions

adj

1

Not real; false, fraudulent.

Which fur coat looks fake?

Seeing Rossano Brazzi play an aristocratic White Russian, standing in the fakest snow that wartime supplies could buy, may be the most peculiar twist of all in the curious story of how Ayn Rand's autobiographical first novel came to the screen.

2

Insincere

noun

1

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

I suspect this passport is a fake.

Among other interesting and weighty opinions, which were in general agreement with our contentions, was one by Mr. H. A. Staddon of Goodmayes, a gentleman who had made a particular hobby of fakes in photography. His report is too long and too technical for inclusion, but, under the various headings of composition, dress, development, density, lighting, poise, texture, plate, atmosphere, focus, halation, he goes very completely into the evidence, coming to the final conclusion that when tried by all these tests the chances are not less than 80 per cent. in favour of authenticity.

2

A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

3

A trick; a swindle

verb

1

To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

2

To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

to fake a marriage

to fake happiness

3

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

4

To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is

He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.

5

To improvise, in jazz.

Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.

In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.

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