Definitions for faker

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faker fak·er

Spelling: [fey-ker]

IPA: /ˈfeɪ kər/

Faker is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in faker (aefkr).

Definitions for faker

noun

1. a person who fakes.
2. a petty swindler.
3. a peddler or street vendor of articles of dubious value.
4. anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit:
5. a person who fakes; faker:
6. a spurious report or story.
7. Sports. a simulated play or move intended to deceive an opponent.

adjective

1. designed to deceive or cheat; not real; counterfeit.

Verb phrases

1. fake out, Slang. to trick; deceive: to surprise, as by a sudden reversal:

verb (used with object)

1. prepare or make (something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent):
2. to conceal the defects of or make appear more attractive, interesting, valuable, etc., usually in order to deceive:
3. to pretend; simulate:
4. to accomplish by trial and error or by improvising:
5. to trick or deceive (an opponent) by making a fake (often followed by out):
6. Jazz. to improvise: to play (music) without reading from a score.

verb (used without object)

1. to fake something; pretend.
2. to give a fake to an opponent.

Origin of faker

First recorded in 1840-50; fake¹ + -er¹

Examples for faker

If I say so, he'll scare-head you as a faker—in letters all across the front page.

And this is the business of every educator who is not content to be a faker.

"I said I was going to make a moving picture of that faker," repeated Russ.

They said we would be skinned to a finish by the faker who got us, and they were right.

Jack would have had one word for Macedoine and one only—faker.

The idea that Dylan is a faker, unless everything he wrote came out of his own imagination—word for word, note for note—is absurd.

We knew that, answered Dan, but we werent going to tell you, you faker!

Of course Dr. Munro nowhere suggests that any excavator is the guilty “faker.”

You see, it doesn't work; and anybody who claims it does is a faker and a liar.

With what fine contempt the 'rube' is surveyed by the faker who has plucked him!