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Definition of Hoax
Hoax

A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.

Related Definitions:
By, Deceive, Deception, Deceptive, For, Impose, Joke, Mischief, Mockery, Or, Practical, Sport, Story, To, Trick, Upon


Hoax Quotations

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
Elvis Presley

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Angela Carter

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.
Dwight Schultz

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
John Coleman

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
Gale Sayers

Hoax Translations

hoax in Dutch is bedotten, beduvelen, beetnemen
hoax in French is attrape
hoax in German is narre, foppen
hoax in Swedish is lura, spratt


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