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Definition of Fake
Fake

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

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.

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

To make; to construct; to do.

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.

A trick; a swindle.

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Fake Quotations

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.
David Russell

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx

Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.
Victoria Jackson

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
Joan Jett

Fake Translations

fake in German is falsch, Schwindel
fake in Norwegian is forfalskning, forfalske


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