Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who fakes; specifically, in the life-saving service, a surfman whose duty it is to fake the shot-lines in a faking-box.
- n. A pickpocket; a thief.
- n. One who sells or deals in fakes; specifically, a street-vender.
- n. A hanger-on of the theatrical profession.
Wiktionary
- n. one who fakes something
- n. an impostor or impersonator
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Slang, Slang One who fakes something
- n. Slang, Slang a thief.
- n. Slang, Slang a peddler of petty things.
- n. Slang a workman who dresses things up.
- n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses
Examples
“And by the way, do you suppose that this guy actually uses the word faker in his screen name might be a clue to his authenticity?”
““Every dollar that’s lost to a faker is one more dollar that can’t be spent on a veteran,” said O’Neill, whose office is responsible for rooting out those who defraud VA.”
“Benefit cuts are fuelling abuse of disabled people, say charities Benefit cuts are fuelling abuse of disabled people, say charities 'I never qualified for disability benefit, yet I'm still called a faker' Youth unemployment report calls for co-ordinated action in 600 hotspots Boy, 11, drowned in respite centre pool after carers were distracted - inquest Follow the latest news on the NHS reforms with our team of health specialists”
“Djokovic did not take kindly to being called a faker, and beat Roddick in the quarter-finals in New York.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
“This video Sen. Mike Duffy calling Peter Stoffer MP, a "faker" prior to dashing off an RCMP mess dinner, and this post at Dawg's, caused me to imagine a near future headline reading "Mike Duffy appointed RCMP Commissioner".”
“But when I checked the OED definition, I found that the OED gives it a sense of "faker" as an Americanism.”
“The implication, it seems to me, is that 'faker' is not just an occasional misuse but a common US meaning, and I don't agree.”
“The method of working in the poorer specimens is very simple, and it pays the "faker" to sell for £2 or £3 what takes, perhaps, only half a day to produce.”
“When traveling through the Northwest some time ago, one of the present writers strolled up a village street after dinner and noticed a crowd listening to a "faker" speaking on a corner from a goods-box.”
“He warned his young friend against the wiles of the "faker," who had been known to pipeclay a mottled animal and deceive the amateur.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘faker’.
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
thief, sneak thief, burglar, cat burglar, picklock, puggard, robber, grave robber, piller, porch climber, prowler, larcenist and 133 more...
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A Whiz Mob
Pickpocket lingo. Words culled from and inspired by this article. See also A Swell Mob and The Grifters.
pit, prat, skinning the poke, kissing the dog, whiz mob, wire mob, steer, mark, vic, chump, Mr. Bates, pappy and 54 more...
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
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it is not truth that matters, but vic...
every kind of liar.
prevaricator, falsifier, fabricator, perjurer, fabulist, fibber, hypocrite, tartuffe, pharisee, phony, charlatan, traitor and 13 more...
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