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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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  • Everything about her was fake, her name, her eyelashes, her fingernails, her breasts. 1 once told Simon her breasts were too symmetrical to be real. —  the secret sense
  • The separation of the real from the fake is the cornerstone on which our understanding of any artist's work is based. —  What Is an Andy Warhol?
  • Going for the fake is a reasonable decision-4 extra points is a reasonable game.
  • We spent $5 for the fake, the Essay Miami (PH), which is a rip-off of Issey Miyake who's a famous Japanese designer. —  CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2007
  • "But the bigger the fake is the better it catches the crowd. —  The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
 

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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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