fake

1. 1

   Not real; false, fraudulent.

   • Which fur coat looks fake?
2. 2

   Insincere

syn. artificial · bad · bogus · bollocks · concocted · counterfeit · ersatz · fabricated · false · falsified · fake · faux

ant. genuine · real

1. 1

   Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

   • I suspect this passport is a fake.
2. 2

   A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

3. 3

   A trick; a swindle.archaic

4. 4

   An impostor.

1. 1

   To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.transitive

2. 2

   To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.transitive

   • to fake a marriage
   • to fake happiness
3. 3

   To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.archaic

4. 4

   To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.archaic

   • He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.
5. 5

   To improvise, in jazz.ambitransitive

   • In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.

1. 1

   One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

1. 1

   To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.