Usually means: Not genuine; imitation or counterfeit.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fake: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fake, fake, fake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fake, fake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fake: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fake, fake: Wordnik
  7. fake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fake: Wiktionary
  9. fake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fake: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fake, fake: Dictionary.com
  13. fake: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. -FAKE-, Fake (Ai song), Fake (Alexander O'Neal song), Fake (Simply Red song), Fake (Swedish band), Fake (album), Fake (band), Fake (deception), Fake (film), Fake (manga), Fake, Fake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fake: Rhymezone
  19. fake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fake: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fake: Free Dictionary
  23. fake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fake: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fake: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fake: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fake: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fake: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fake: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FAKE: Acronym Finder
  2. fake: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fake, fake, fake, fake, fake: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fake, fake: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fake: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fake: Coin Collecting
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Fake, Fake: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not real; false, fraudulent.
adjective:  (of people) Insincere
noun:  Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
noun:  (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
noun:  (archaic) A trick; a swindle
verb:  (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
verb:  (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
verb:  (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
verb:  (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
verb:  (music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
noun:  (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb:  (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

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