Meaning

6 senses
  1. One who fakes something.

    a person who makes deceitful pretenses

  2. An impostor or impersonator.

  3. (broadly)A friendly unit (usually aircraft) that acts as a hostile unit in a military exercise.

  4. A snake oil salesman; one who makes exaggerated claims about a product he sells.

  5. (obsolete)A thief.

  6. (obsolete)A peddler of petty things.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. That expression is faker than a coin with my face on it.

  2. Sami is a faker.

  3. There may be thieves, fakers, perverts or killers in social networks. For your security, you shouldn't believe them.

    deEs könnten Diebe, Fälscher, Perverse oder Mörder in den sozialen Netzwerken sein. Zu deiner Sicherheit solltest du ihnen nicht glauben. — Esperantostern

Forms

plural: fakers
Singularfaker
Pluralfakers

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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