FAKER (faker)

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Irregular inflected form: faker   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does faker mean? 

• FAKER (noun)
  The noun FAKER has 1 sense:

1. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

  Familiarity information: FAKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who makes deceitful pretenses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fake; faker; fraud; imposter; impostor; pretender; pseud; pseudo; role player; sham; shammer

Hypernyms ("faker" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faker"):

name dropper (someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends)

ringer (a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses)

Derivation:

fake (speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths)

fake (tamper, with the purpose of deception)

 Context examples 

I found him in the hands of a faker, and took the liberty of running him just as he was sent over.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, an old horse-faker like him has many a dodge.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)