Definitions for dupe

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dupe dupe

Spelling: [doop, dyoop]

IPA: /dup, dyup/

Dupe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in dupe (depu).

Definitions for dupe

noun

1. a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull.
2. a person who unquestioningly or unwittingly serves a cause or another person:
3. duplicate.
4. Movies. a duplicate picture negative used for making additional release prints or for making special effects to be inserted in the release negative. the procedure for producing such a duplicate.
5. Television. a duplicate videotape obtained by electronic printing of the original videotape.

adjective

1. duplicate.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a dupe of; deceive; delude; trick.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to duplicate.

Origin of dupe

1675-85; French; Middle French duppe for *(tête) d'uppe head of hoopoe, i.e., fool (compare tête de fou) Vulgar Latin *uppa, Latin upupa hoopoe, a bird thought to be especially stupid; cf.

Examples for dupe

Steven decided to dupe his doctor when he returned from his elite boarding school exhausted by the intense competition there.

One cannot even say that "her head is the dupe of her heart," since she has no heart.

It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

Mrs. Luttridge will look upon him as her dupe, and make him such.

If she fell, should he not save his friend from being the dupe of an artful intriguante?

In order to dupe the old man, he pretended to be in bad health.

Anyone who disagreed with their thinking, including fellow Republicans, was a traitor, or a liar, or a dupe.

It was a beautified camp the Nazis used to dupe international visitors and officials.

But they apparently rejected the idea that Rana remained a dupe once the carnage in India had happened.