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DUPE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is tricked or swindled

Synonyms:

dupe; victim

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("dupe" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dupe"):

butt; goat; laughingstock; stooge (a victim of ridicule or pranks)

chump; fall guy; fool; gull; mark; mug; patsy; soft touch; sucker (a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of)

lamb (a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters))

easy mark; sitting duck (a defenseless victim)

Derivation:

dupe (fool or hoax)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fool or hoax

Example:

You can't fool me!

Synonyms:

befool; cod; dupe; fool; gull; put on; put one across; put one over; slang; take in

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "dupe" is one way to...):

betray; deceive; lead astray (cause someone to believe an untruth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dupe"):

kid; pull the leg of (tell false information to for fun)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

dupe (a person who is tricked or swindled)

dupery (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Maddison is a clever fellow; I do not wish to displace him, provided he does not try to displace me; but it would be simple to be duped by a man who has no right of creditor to dupe me, and worse than simple to let him give me a hard-hearted, griping fellow for a tenant, instead of an honest man, to whom I have given half a promise already.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was released from the engagement to be mortified and unhappy, till some other pretty girl could attract him into matrimony again, and he might set forward on a second, and, it is to be hoped, more prosperous trial of the state: if duped, to be duped at least with good humour and good luck; while she must withdraw with infinitely stronger feelings to a retirement and reproach which could allow no second spring of hope or character.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)