hoax

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhoaxhoax /həʊks $ hoʊks/ noun [countable] 1 TRICK/DECEIVEa false warning about something dangerous a bomb hoax hoax calls (=telephone calls giving false information) to the police2 TRICK/DECEIVEan attempt to make people believe something that is not true an elaborate hoaxExamples from the Corpushoax• The UFO sightings were revealed to be a hoax.• At the school she discovered the call had been a hoax.• Did Mr Hawthorne stand to gain from a hoax?• Their vivid colouring is a hoax.• I got an email about another computer virus, but I'm pretty sure it's just a hoax.• The rumor was that I had invented him to perpetrate a hoax and had actually written the books myself.• A hoax is a hoax, of course, but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga's grandson.• Had Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or was it a magnificent hoax?• What was really wonderful was that the paper swallowed the hoax whole.hoax calls• Phone-in services can be bedevilled by hoax calls.• It was then I started making hoax calls.• The number of hoax calls in the county has risen by twenty three percent over the past five years.• Of 221 launches in answer to unidentified distress signals 216 turned out to be false alarms or hoax calls.• Last week's blast triggered several hoax calls.elaborate hoax• This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her.• It was still not clear last night whether the tapes were an elaborate hoax.Origin hoax (1700-1800) Probably from hocus; → HOCUS-POCUS

单词	hoax
释义	hoax From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhoaxhoax /həʊks $ hoʊks/ noun [countable] 1 TRICK/DECEIVEa false warning about something dangerous a bomb hoax hoax calls (=telephone calls giving false information) to the police2 TRICK/DECEIVEan attempt to make people believe something that is not true an elaborate hoaxExamples from the Corpushoax• The UFO sightings were revealed to be a hoax.• At the school she discovered the call had been a hoax.• Did Mr Hawthorne stand to gain from a hoax?• Their vivid colouring is a hoax.• I got an email about another computer virus, but I'm pretty sure it's just a hoax.• The rumor was that I had invented him to perpetrate a hoax and had actually written the books myself.• A hoax is a hoax, of course, but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga's grandson.• Had Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or was it a magnificent hoax?• What was really wonderful was that the paper swallowed the hoax whole.hoax calls• Phone-in services can be bedevilled by hoax calls.• It was then I started making hoax calls.• The number of hoax calls in the county has risen by twenty three percent over the past five years.• Of 221 launches in answer to unidentified distress signals 216 turned out to be false alarms or hoax calls.• Last week's blast triggered several hoax calls.elaborate hoax• This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her.• It was still not clear last night whether the tapes were an elaborate hoax.Origin hoax (1700-1800) Probably from hocus; → HOCUS-POCUS
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