Usually means: Deceive someone through cunning means.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word hoodwink:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. hoodwink: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hoodwink: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hoodwink: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hoodwink: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hoodwink: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hoodwink, hoodwink: Wordnik
  7. hoodwink: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hoodwink: Wiktionary
  9. hoodwink: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hoodwink: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hoodwink: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hoodwink, hoodwink: Dictionary.com
  13. hoodwink: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hoodwink: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hoodwink: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hoodwink: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hoodwink: Rhymezone
  18. Hoodwink: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hoodwink: Free Dictionary
  20. hoodwink: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Hoodwink: The Word Detective
  22. hoodwink: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Hoodwink: World Wide Words
  24. hoodwink: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hoodwink: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HOODWINK: Masonic Dictionary
  2. hoodwink: Idioms
  3. hoodwink: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hoodwink: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hoodwinked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively)
verb:  To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.
verb:  (archaic) To hide or obscure.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To close the eyes.
noun:  (countable) An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
noun:  (British, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.

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