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put one over

alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) To succeed in a deception. 2 (context idiomatic with ''on'' English) To fool, trick, or deceive. vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To succeed in a deception. 2 (context idiomatic with ''on'' English) To fool, trick, or deceive.

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put one over

v. fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one across]

Usage examples of "put one over".

Bishop Gzekius is always trying to put one over on his fellow Bishops.

He hated me then and since I put one over on him last summer it's become even worse.

While he was tootling along, smirking about having put one over on the best, his brother would have anticipated him and would have chosen their place of battle.

Over the last couple of years, LePic had come to suspect how Theisman and Citizen Captain Hathaway had put one over on him in the closing stages of the Fourth Battle of Yeltsin.

I'm ashamed to admit that we do it all the time on Khemava, whenever we want to 'put one over' on the Delkasu.

The former owner looked as if people had all too often tried to put one over him.

He liked Lieutenant Commander Ashford a lot, he really did, but there was something undeniably delicious about receiving not simply official sanction but actual orders to put one over on an officer.

The combination of boredom, greed, and a very human (if ignoble) desire to put one over on one’.