Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Pretended; feigned.
- noun A deceptive outward appearance.
- noun The act of teasing or misleading someone, especially for amusement.
- noun Something, such as a prank, intended as a hoax or joke; a spoof.
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- noun A
deception ,hoax , orpractical joke .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- noun a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- noun something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
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Examples
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And either was the hit-and-run Albert Pujols "put-on himself" in the 7th inning of Game Five, a key move that led to Allen Craig getting thrown out.
St Louis Cardinals 10 Texas Rangers 9 - as it happened | World Series Game 6 2011
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As noted in my last post, Authorers are gaining traction, right up there with Birthers and Truthers, after Bill Ayers 'put-on about ghostwriting Barack Obama's Dreams for my Father was taken as gospel by a colony of right-wing gulls.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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So too with the apparent shambling of his act: it is just that, a put-on.
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An American with a put-on Australian accent, a sea-nymph, was listening to us—he said she was rubbing up on him during the story, but I couldn't see it because she was on his other side.
Rock Band Days Ann Bogle 2012
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Gerwig's Rose is quirky with a capital "Q", but her performance is not a put-on or a sketch comedy act.
Turnstyle: [AFI Fest Review] The Dish & The Spoon Turnstyle 2011
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In fact, the austerity has always been a bit of a put-on.
The Comfort of Strangers Leah Chernikoff 2010
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I feel like they're being uber-respectful to dance music, and it's not a put-on and it's not some kind of post-ironicism or something.
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So too with the apparent shambling of his act: it is just that, a put-on.
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If "Gris-Gris" at times flirts with schtick, the album's closer, an eight-minute incantation called "I Walk on Gilded Splinters," boils off any taint of put-on with its sinister groove, its seething invective and its backing female vocals filled with Creole curses.
A Road Trip in Search of Ghosts Eddie Dean 2010
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She was dismissive of anyone she considered to be unimportant or – worse – uninteresting, and her "eccentricity" was more of a put-on than she cared to admit.
Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow Rachel Cooke 2010
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