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Round 14: NSU decides to have 3 work B and 2 go A I presume after a fake is attempted, but teknikal decides to AWP and gets to entrys defending B while adr kills the 3rd.

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  1. adjective Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
  2. noun One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
  3. noun Sports A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
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  • That's when you're perceived as fake, as a phony company -- advertizing things that you're not. —  Joseph Pine on what consumers want
  • Like the time they gave me a Phonex (that's what we call a fake Rolex).
  • It's the sort of story like Elvis being alive and 9 / 11 being a fake which is presumed to be false unless strong evidence appears to the contrary. —  politicalbetting.com
  • Said: hey uwb, whats a fake kirat - how can you give one kirat the name fake and not the other - it's hilarious to call anonymous bloggers fake or not - who do u think you are to do that? —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
  • I can't be the * only* one who reads the email as a fake, am I? —  Planet Atheism
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false ·  real ·  phony ·  damn ·  pretty ·  precious

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fake:   fakes ·  faking ·  faked
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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Middle English faken, to coil a rope.

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  1. from Middle English faken, fold; formerly also fack, Scots feck, faik; prob. from Swedish vecka, fold. Cf. fake, n.
  2. Formerly also fack, Scots faik, feminine, prob. from Swedish veck, a fold. Cf. fake, v. The Middle High German vach, German fach, fold, is a special sense of a general word for ‘part’ or ‘division’: see fetch, etymology
  3. It is not impossible that this may be a perversion of Middle English faiten, dissemble, go about shamming, beg (said of beggars and tramps); so faker (q. v.) may represent Middle English faitour: see faitor. But thieves' slang is shifting and has usually no history.
  4. from fake, v.
  5. Scots, also faik; perhaps from Middle Dutch facken, seize, apprehend.
 

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