Meaning

5 senses
  1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

    I suspect this passport is a fake.

    Fälschung, Illusion, Imitat

    подде́лкаpoddélka, фальши́вкаfalʹšívka, фейкfejk

    підро́бкаpidróbka, фальши́вкаfalʹšývka, фейкfejk

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

  3. An impostor.

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

  5. (archaic)A trick; a swindle.

More definitions
  • something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
  • (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
  • a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Examples

573 sentences
  1. How can you tell which one is a fake?

    Як можна зрозуміти, який з них — фальшивка? — deniko

  2. This is a fake.

    Це підробка. — deniko

    ruЭто подделка. — marafon

    deDas ist eine Fälschung. — Haehnchenpaella

  3. That's a fake beard, isn't it?

    Це фальшива борода, еге ж? — deniko

    ruЭто ведь ненастоящая борода, да? — marafon

    deDas ist ein falscher Bart, oder? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Fake it till you make it, Tom.

    Прикидайся, допоки в тебе не вийде, Томе. — deniko

  5. That's a fake.

    Це підробка. — deniko

    ruЭто подделка. — marafon

    deDas ist eine Kopie. — Sudajaengi

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently:
Русский
By meaning 1
something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently:

Origin

The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British cr

The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.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”).

Inherited from Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).

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Forms

plural: fakes
Singularfake
Pluralfakes

regular

Synonyms

14 synonyms
soccer move:feint
ice hockey move:deke
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • a fake id
  • fake id
  • is a fake
  • using a fake

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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