dupe
/dʒuːp/US/duːp/
dupe noun: a person who has been deceived.
Noun (1)
dupe (plural dupes)
- A person who has been deceived.
- It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley's pretended regard.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 55, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
- I am responding to Allen Young's letter to the editor concerning two articles I wrote for GCN about my experiences in Cuba. The gist of Mr. Young's letter is that I am a commie dupe and the Cubans who shared there opinions and experiences with me were simply lying.1991 August 31, Sonia de Vries, “The Real Enemies Of Humanity Are Here At Home”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 7, page 4
Verb (1)
dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)
Noun (2)
dupe (plural dupes)
- A duplicate of a photographic image.
- A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
- A word which appears more than once in a crossword puzzle.
- A counterfeit; a fake, a (typically cheaper) copy (of some legitimate consumer product, design, etc).
- TikTok could potentially be liable if lots of users are directing other users to the sales of dupes, she said, and she said if users have an affiliate relationship with the sellers of counterfeit goods, they could also potentially be liable.2020 March 1, Megan Graham, “TikTok teens are obsessed with fake luxury products”, in CNBC
- The dupe lived up to expectation in our head-to-head review, where we concluded that Revolution’s affordable formula is a “perfectly worthy alternative that won’t see you digging too deep into your pocket.”2023 February 21, Daisy Lester, “Revolution has launched a £10 alternative to Charlotte Tilbury’s £65 magic serum”, in The Independent
- An unanticipated method or incident by which duplicates of in-game items are created; a duplication glitch.
- An in-game item that was created by means of a duplication glitch.
Verb (2)
dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)
- To duplicate.
- Can you dupe this photo for me?
- That night, a shaken camera operator dupes the tape and leaks a copy to the press.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 379
- Synonyms:
- double, duplicate, facsimilize
dupe meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
dupe in Tamil
- to swindle, deceive, or trick
- ஏமாற்று ēmāṟṟu
dupe in Urdu
- سادہ لوح, اندھا کرنا, دھوکا دینا, بیوقوف بنانا
dupe in Bengali
- এক ব্যক্তি, যিনি প্রতারিত, প্রতারণা করা, মিথ্যা দেখানো, ফাঁকি দেওয়া, একটি নকল
dupe in Malayalam
- വഞ്ചിതൻ, മണ്ടൻ
More languagesFewer languages
- dupe in Kannada
- ಮೋಸಮಾಡು, ವಂಚಿಸು, ಮರುಳುಗೊಳಿಸು, ಉಕ್ಕೆವಿಸು
- dupe in Arabic
- يخدع
- dupe in Indonesian
- menipu, mengakali, membodohi, memperdaya
- dupe in Vietnamese
- lừa gạt
Examples of dupe in a sentence
- We’ve seen everything from mermaidcore and mushrooms to genius products and Lululemon dupes available on Amazon.
- And it's true, Abiola duped the country for that money—everybody knows it.
- It is important to draw the distinction between duping delight and pathological lying.
Synonyms of dupe
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Antonyms
Forms of dupe
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dupes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | dupes |
| present participle | duping |
| past participle | duped |
| past | duped |
Origin of dupe
From French duper, from Middle French duppe, alteration of huppe (“hoopoe”), from Latin, onomatopoeic.
Clipping of duplicate.
Words formed from dupe
Words that rhyme with dupe
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cloop
- whoop
- coupe
- regroup
- roop
- saloop
- sloop
- snoop
- stoup
- alley oop
- boop
- gloop
- goop
- horse scoop
- jupe
- loupe
- roup
- troupe
- Tuesday Group
- astoop
- chat group
- croup
- dedupe
- drupe
- fisherman's soup
- FOUP
- French onion soup
- ginger group
- L'Anse-au-Loup
- locker loop
- matrix group
- ploop
- pupe
- shoop
- stewp
- stoep
- stupe
- voop
- zoop
Questions about dupe
- What does dupe mean?
- Dupe means a person who has been deceived.
- What is dupe in Tamil?
- Dupe in Tamil is ஏமாற்று (ēmāṟṟu). See Dupe meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dupe?
- Dupe can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce dupe?
- Dupe is pronounced /dʒuːp/.
- What is the plural of dupe?
- The plural of dupe is dupes.
Words near dupe in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dupe (page history and authors); dupe (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dupe (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dupe (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dupe (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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