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   Hood·wink

   /ˈho͝odˌwiNGk/

   

   verb

   • 1. deceive or trick (someone): "an attempt to hoodwink the public"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (originally in the sense ‘to blindfold’): from the noun hood1 + an obsolete sense of wink ‘close the eyes’.

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   What does hoodwink mean?

   • Did you know? We usually use the word wink to refer to a brief shutting of one eye, but hoodwink draws on an older and more obscure meaning of wink covered in our Unabridged Dictionary: “to close one’s eyes.”

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   Can You hoodwink someone into doing something?

   • hoodwink someone into doing something He hoodwinked us into agreeing. We were hoodwinked into believing that we had won a lot of money. They can be hoodwinked into thinking things that don't make sense. The slick investment bankers did not hoodwink these professional investors. You can be hoodwinked by unscrupulous meteorite dealers.

   HOODWINK | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   How did the term “Hoodwinked” come about?

   • That way the only thing they could see was the surface in front of their feet. This was called “ hoodwinking" the horses. Eventually this came to mean someone or something that's preventing you from seeing what's right in front of you. Originally Answered: How did the term “hoodwinked” come about, as in "I've been hoodwinked"?

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   Is the public Hoodwinked?

   • “The public ... is as easily hood-winked,” wrote the Irish physician Charles Lucas in 1756, by which time the figurative use had been around for decades—and today, that meaning of the word is far from winking out. Don't let yourself be hoodwinked into buying things you don't need.

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   1. : to deceive by false appearance : dupe. people who allow themselves to be hoodwinked by such promises. 2. archaic : blindfold. 3. obsolete : hide. hoodwinker noun. Did you know?

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   to deceive or trick someone: hoodwink someone into doing something He hoodwinked us into agreeing. Synonym. bamboozle informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cheating & tricking. anti-fraud. bad faith. bamboozle. bilk. blackmail. deceive. diddle. feint. flannel. grifter. gull. have an eye to/for the main chance idiom. have someone on

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   to deceive or trick someone: We were hoodwinked into believing that we had won a lot of money. (Definition of hoodwink from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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   to deceive or trick someone: We were hoodwinked into believing that we had won a lot of money. (Definition of hoodwink from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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   Hoodwinked definition: deceived or tricked. See examples of HOODWINKED used in a sentence.

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   Hoodwink definition: to deceive or trick.. See examples of HOODWINK used in a sentence.

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   /ˌhʊˈdwɪŋk/ IPA guide. Other forms: hoodwinked; hoodwinking; hoodwinks. To hoodwink someone means to trick or mislead them. Beware of fake ATMs that try to hoodwink you into giving over your bank card and your code, only to keep them both and steal all your money.