Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An easily deceived person.
- n. A person who functions as the tool of another person or power.
- v. To deceive (an unwary person). See Synonyms at deceive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person who is deceived; one who is led astray by false representations or conceptions; a victim of credulity: as, the dupe of a designing rogue; he is a dupe to his imagination.
- To deceive; trick; mislead by imposing on one's credulity: as, to dupe a person by flattery.
Wiktionary
- v. To swindle, deceive, or trick.
- v. photography To duplicate a photographic image.
- n. A person who has been deceived.
- n. photography A duplicate of a photographic image.
- n. restaurant industry A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
- n. informal A duplicate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull.
- v. To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull.
WordNet 3.0
- v. fool or hoax
- n. a person who is tricked or swindled
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, probably alteration of huppe, hoopoe (from the bird's stupid appearance); see hoopoe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Pilon's friend and favorite dupe is small-time crook, Danny Alvarez, who has inherited two houses and a gold watch from his late grandfather, and who later falls in love with Dolores Ramirez.”
“Calling someone a terrorist dupe is nowhere the same as calling them EVIL.”
“In what KCNA called "an interview" that he gave of his own free will to authorities, Park said he'd been a dupe, that is, a dupe of all that stuff spread by human-rights advocates overseas about the horrors of life in North Korea.”
“And yet maybe technology is doing in the long-term dupe, the dangerous liaison where no one gets caught and no one pays.”
“Also, sometimes because I use a painfully clever title dupe check won't pick up that it's the same as another story in upcoming.”
“McCain was and is, a dupe, which is an offense far greater than any imagined 'appeasement'.”
“Besides being a religious shyster, or a hoodwinked dupe, that is.”
“Page 261 but a colossal dupe, which is worse than being a criminal.”
“The majority of these were found in hedgesparrows 'nests, and the absolute dissimilarity between the great spotted egg of the cuckoo and the little blue egg of its so-called dupe would have impressed even a colour-blind animal.”
“Seizing the hand of Taffy, the sorcerer hurried him out of the cave, moved the stone back in its place and motioning to Taffy to do the same, he quickly shoveled and kicked the loose dirt in the hole and stamped it down: When Taffy turned to look for him, he was gone, without even taking the trouble to call his dupe a fool.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dupe’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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One word book titles
More popular books often have shorter titles. Here is a list of one word book titles
blink, Freakonomics, roots, sugar, banjo, rising, cane, crave, emotions, love, until, dune and 118 more...
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Words in which "u" is pronounced "yu"
cute, uniform, puny, municipal, butte, fume, perfume, puke, cucumber, huge, demure, cube and 95 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Lying, cheating, and stealing
subterfuge, chicanery, skulduggery, pilfer, purloin, bamboozle, bilk, gyp, hoodwink, swindle, hoax, dupe and 28 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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Unfamiliar Words
dank, refrain, hostage, frigid, warden, atrocious, squirm, kinship, riot, counterfeit, stamped, scaffolding and 59 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dupe.
john “But in New York, a city that has become almost synonymous with high security, where office employees wear picture IDs and surveillance cameras are on the rise, some officers don’t wear their badges on patrol.
Instead, they wear fakes.
Called “dupes,” these phony badges are often just a trifle smaller than real ones but otherwise completely authentic. Officers use them because losing a real badge can mean paperwork and a heavy penalty, as much as 10 days’ pay.”
The New York Times, The Officer Is Real; The Badge May Be an Impostor, by Ray Rivera, November 30, 2009 Dec 1, 2009
reesetee Because they believe the bird was...well, not too smart. :-) Great etymology, sionnach--thanks! Nov 5, 2007
sionnach This comes from a bird! The French word huppe means a certain small, elaborately crested bird, which we call the hoopoe. In Middle French the phrase du huppe ("of the hoopoe") became slang duppe, meaning a dupe, and passed into English with the same meaning.
Wordcraft archives, September 2004 Nov 5, 2007