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fake verb- to deceive UK, 1859
- If I was them and a man fake me like I taking them, would I believe him? — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 55, 1967
- to falsify for the purposes of deception UK, 1851
- Were the lunar landings faked? — The Guardian, 13 September 2002
- to make, to do UK
- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 174, 2002
- to hit UK, 1933
Polari. - I thought he was going to fake him a proper one. — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 28, 1953
- to play music by ear US, 1926
- — Arnold Shaw, Dictionary of American Pop/Rock, p. 122, 1982
▶ fake it till you make it in twelve-step recovery programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous, used as a slogan to encourage recovering addicts to modify their behaviour immediately, with their emotional recovery to follow US- — Christopher Cavanaugh, AA to Z, p. 89, 1998
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