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   Dupe

   /do͞op/

   

   verb

   • 1. deceive; trick: "the newspaper was duped into publishing an untrue story"

   noun

   • 1. a victim of deception: "knowing accomplices or unknowing dupes"

   Word Origin late 17th century: from dialect French dupe ‘hoopoe’, from the bird's supposedly stupid appearance.

   Derivatives

   • 1. dupable adjective
   • 2. dupery noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • D

     2

   • U

     1

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

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