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fakes out

fakes out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fake out.

Meaning of fake out

Verb

fake out (third-person singular simple present fakes out, present participle faking out, simple past and past participle faked out)

  1. (informal, transitive) To deceive, mislead, or trick (someone).
    • Rhyder, who police later concluded had been faking them out during the pursuit by reaching into his pants several times for a gun, actually had been searching frantically for the weapon.1989 November 16, Kristin Casler, “Police Recover Stolen Gun”, in The Morning Call, Pennsylvania, USA, retrieved 14 Jan 2012, page B1

Questions about fakes out

What is fakes out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fakes out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fake out.

Words near fakes out in the dictionary

  1. fakes bad
  2. fakes good
  3. fakes it
  4. fakes it till one makes it
  5. fakes it until one makes it
  6. fakes out
  7. fakes the fatcha
  8. fakes up
  9. fakeship
  10. fakest
  11. fakester

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fakes out (page history and authors); fake out (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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