fake
Not real; false, fraudulent.
Adjective 2 meanings
Not real; false, fraudulent.
“Which fur coat looks fake?”
Insincere
Noun 4 meanings
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
“I suspect this passport is a fake.”
A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
An impostor.
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Verb 4 meanings
To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
“to fake a marriage”
To improvise, in jazz.
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.
Etymology
E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”).
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FAKE at a glance
FAKE has 4 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (F 4 + A 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,196 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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