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put something over

put something over is the alternative form of put one over.

Meaning of put one over

Verb

put one over (third-person singular simple present puts one over, present participle putting one over, simple past and past participle put one over)

  1. (idiomatic) To succeed in a deception.
  2. (idiomatic, with-on) To fool, trick, or deceive.
    • "[Y]ou surely aren't thinking you can put one over on me in this business? Tell me, you don't take me for that sort of ivory-skulled boob?"1913, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 9, in The Little Nugget

Forms of put something over

third-person singular presentputs something over
present participleputting something over
past participleput something over
pastput something over

Questions about put something over

What is put something over the alternative form of?
Put something over is the alternative form of put one over.

Words near put something over in the dictionary

  1. put someone's lights out
  2. put someone's pipe out
  3. put something behind one
  4. put something down to experience
  5. put something into perspective
  6. put something over
  7. put spurs to
  8. put stock in
  9. put store by
  10. put store in
  11. put straight

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put something over (page history and authors); put one over (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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