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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.
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 trick in which someone tries to make people believe something that is not true: The police said the bomb threat was a hoax. (Definition of hoax from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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.
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.
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.
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.
