What does "fake" mean?
Fake: To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
Additional senses
- 2.To make; to construct; to do.
- 3.To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
- 4.A trick; a swindle. [Slang]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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