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/hōks/
noun
a humorous or malicious deception.
"they recognized the plan as a hoax"
synonyms: practical joke, joke, jest, prank, trick, jape, ruse, deception, fraud, imposture, cheat, swindle, bluff, humbug, confidence trick, con, spoof, scam, fast one, put-on

verb
deceive with a hoax.
synonyms: play a practical joke on, play a joke on, play a jest on, play a prank on, trick, fool, deceive, hoodwink, delude, dupe, take in, lead on, cheat, bluff, gull, humbug, con, kid, have on, pull a fast one on, put one over on, take for a ride, gammon, sucker, snooker, hornswoggle, pull a swifty on, cozen, bullshit

: something accepted or established by fraud or fabrication. believes the Loch Ness Monster is a hoax. a literary hoax.
a trick or something else that is intended to deceive someone: A hoax led thousands to donate to a fake charity.
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A hoax is a widely publicised falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into... Wikipedia
A hoax is a widely publicised falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied ...
A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that a picture is genuine when it is not.
noun. something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax. Synonyms: humbug, imposture, fake, fraud, deception.
/həʊks/ · noun. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on. see more ...
an act that is meant to trick or deceive people. The bomb threat is probably a hoax, but we should still evacuate the building.