put sb on
mainly US informal UK usually have sb on— phrasal verb with put uk/pʊt/us/pʊt/verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put
to try to persuade someone that something is true when it is not, usually as a joke:
She said she was planning to give her house to a charity for the homeless but I thought she was putting me on.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- poison
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- send/give out (all) the wrong signals idiom
- shaft
- wool
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