| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h ks |
| NOUN: | 1. An act intended to deceive or trick. 2. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: hoaxed, hoax·ing, hoax·es
To deceive or cheat by using a hoax. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Perhaps alteration of hocus. | | OTHER FORMS: | hoax er —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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