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- Dictionaryhoax·er/ˈhōksər/
noun
- 1. a person who tricks or deceives someone by means of a hoax: "improving the tracing of calls has deterred many hoaxers"
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A hoaxer is a person who carries out a trick or plan to deceive people, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation, and translations of hoaxer from Cambridge Dictionary.
Learn the meaning of hoax as a verb and a noun, with synonyms, examples, and word history. A hoaxer is someone who hoaxes, or tricks into believing something false and often preposterous.
a person who carries out a trick or plan to deceive people, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not: If a hoaxer sends a pizza to the wrong address, little damage is done. A bomb hoaxer brought chaos to the city with a false threat. See. hoax. More examples.
a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick: The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax. hoax call He'd made a hoax call claiming to be the president. Compare. put-on US informal. fraud. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cheating & tricking. anti-fraud. bad faith.
A hoaxer is someone who carries out a hoax, which is a trick or deception to fool people. Learn more about the word frequency, synonyms, pronunciation and usage of hoaxer with Collins English Dictionary.
A hoax is often intended as a practical joke or to cause embarrassment, or to provoke social or political change by raising people's awareness of something. It can also emerge from a marketing or advertising purpose.
A hoaxer is a person who tricks somebody by making them believe something that is not true, especially something unpleasant. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, synonyms and usage notes with the Oxford app.
