Definitions for the word "fake" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To make; to construct; to do.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A trick; a swindle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
False or counterfeit thing or person. adj. Counterfeit; not genuine. v. (-king) 1 make a fake or imitation of (faked my signature). 2 feign (a feeling, illness, etc.). [german fegen sweep]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
8. slang
in the sporting world, means to hocus or poison. Fake is also a
mixture supposed to be used for purposes of “making safe.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
9. slang
to cheat, or swindle; to do anything; to go on, or continue; to
make or construct; to steal or rob,—a verb variously used. FAKED, done,
or done for; “FAKE away, there’s no down;” go on, there is nobody
looking. From the _Latin_ FACERE.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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