fake out
faked out; faking out; fakes out
Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty
Synonyms: Synonyms
- bamboozle,
- beguile,
- bluff,
- buffalo,
- burn,
- catch,
- con,
- cozen,
- deceive,
- delude,
- dupe,
- fool,
- gaff,
- gammon,
- gull,
- have,
- have on
-
[chiefly British],
- hoax,
- hoodwink,
- hornswoggle,
- humbug,
- juggle,
- misguide,
- misinform,
- mislead,
- snooker,
- snow,
- spoof,
- string along,
- suck in,
- sucker,
- take in,
- trick
Synonyms: Antonyms
First Known Use of fake out
1949, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries near fake out
More Synonyms and Antonyms offake out
1
to cause to believe what is untrue
- my friends faked me out for a whole day, letting me think that they had forgotten my birthday
- bamboozle,
- beguile,
- bluff,
- buffalo,
- burn,
- catch,
- con,
- cozen,
- deceive,
- delude,
- dupe,
- fool,
- gaff,
- gammon,
- gull,
- have,
- have on
-
[chiefly British],
- hoax,
- hoodwink,
- hornswoggle,
- humbug,
- juggle,
- misguide,
- misinform,
- mislead,
- snooker,
- snow,
- spoof,
- string along,
- suck in,
- sucker,
- take in,
- trick
- bleed,
- cheat,
- chisel,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- euchre,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- gyp,
- hustle,
- mulct,
- rook,
- shortchange,
- skin,
- squeeze,
- stick,
- sting,
- swindle
2
to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement
- used a quick between-the-legs dribble to fake out the flat-footed defender