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faker

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
faker \fak"er\, n. [Sometimes erroneously written fakir.] One who fakes something; as a thief. , a peddler of petty things. a workman who dresses things up. [Slang] a person who makes deceitful pretenses. Syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, fraud, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, agent noun from fake (v.).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who fakes something. 2 An impostor or impersonator. 3 (cx obsolete English) A thief. 4 (cx obsolete English) A peddler of petty things. 5 (cx obsolete English) A workman who dresses things up.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter , impostor , pretender , fake , fraud , sham , shammer , pseudo , pseud , role player ]

Usage examples of faker.

The faker, closely held by the constable who had arrested him, and by a brother officer who had hurried up, gave the strange girl one look.

Two years paid that faker and at the end of it I got a boy who hated me because of what that man put in his head.

The faker had got the glaze right, the scrolled red and green curled right, the design ideal.

Doctor Mazda, faker who had aided a murderer, was face to face with The Shadow!

Clad in tuxedo and turban, false beard on his chin, this clever faker was calmly reading a book.

The faker, though quietly dressed in street clothes, was wearing one of his false beards.

Attired in a fancy dressing gown, wearing one of his special beards, the faker showed real anxiety.

He must face this issue - face it without revealing the fact that he was a faker and a rogue.

Antique dealers and fakers think of automatic electric planers, gouging drills you work with a button while having coffee and a fag.

Detective Joe Cardona, for his work in cleaning up the murderous fakers, received the congratulations of Police Commissioner Weston.

But I say, what all the poor nature- fakers will say, that Rollo reasoned.

Except, of course, the people who are already considered to be completely bobo, the paranormalists, the regular batch of fakers and hucksters.

Butcher and Faker can pick over that Seneschet warehouse in Massachusetts and see what they got, but it'll be no sweat--I think we can pick up about seven or eight thousand kilos of ammonium nitrate from the waste-storage area, and we got about a thousand kilos of TNT in storage for the primer loads.

They did a double switch-they put the faker down low, and they put the real bomber up high.

Cooker and Faker were a little better off, with near-total engine failure but at least retaining hull integrity and a small degree of firepower capability.