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- DictionaryHoax/hōks/
noun
- 1. a humorous or malicious deception: "they recognized the plan as a hoax"
verb
- 1. deceive with a hoax.
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 definition: 1. a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is…. Learn more.
HOAX meaning: 1. a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is…. Learn more.
Hoax definition: something intended to deceive or defraud. See examples of HOAX used in a sentence.
anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless. type of: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) verb. subject to a playful hoax or joke. synonyms: play a joke on, pull someone's leg.
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.
HOAX meaning: a trick in which someone tries to make people believe something that is not true: . Learn more.
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.
noun. /həʊks/. /həʊks/. an act intended to make somebody believe something that is not true, especially something unpleasant. He was accused of using a bomb hoax to empty a rival restaurant. Detectives are still investigating the hoax calls. The emergency call turned out to be a hoax.
hoax. (hōks) n. 1. An act intended to deceive or trick. 2. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means. tr.v. hoaxed, hoax·ing, hoax·es. To deceive or cheat by using a hoax.
