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fake it until one makes it

fake it until one makes it is the alternative form of fake it till one makes it.

Meaning of fake it till one makes it

Verb

fake it till one makes it (third-person singular simple present fakes it till one makes it, present participle faking it till one makes it, simple past and past participle faked it till one made it)

  1. To pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.
    • It gave me a chance to be able to see certain things that I like, and I was like, I just had to find my way, what I was good at in life so I could get those things. I just had to um… fake it till I make it.2015, 9:32 from the start, in Lauren Greenfield, director, Magic City (documentary)

Forms of fake it until one makes it

third-person singular presentfakes it until one makes it
present participlefaking it until one makes it
past participlefaked it until one made it
pastfaked it until one made it

Questions about fake it until one makes it

What is fake it until one makes it the alternative form of?
Fake it until one makes it is the alternative form of fake it till one makes it.

Words near fake it until one makes it in the dictionary

  1. fake geek girl
  2. fake geek girls
  3. fake good
  4. fake it
  5. fake it till one makes it
  6. fake it until one makes it
  7. fake news
  8. fake out
  9. fake PNG
  10. fake Shemp
  11. fake Shemps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fake it until one makes it (page history and authors); fake it till one makes it (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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