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    PUT ONE ACROSS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Fool or hoaxplay

    Example:

    You can't fool me!

    Synonyms:

    befool; cod; dupe; fool; gull; put on; put one across; put one over; slang; take in

    Classified under:

    Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

    Hypernyms (to "put one across" is one way to...):

    betray; deceive; lead astray (cause someone to believe an untruth)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put one across"):

    kid; pull the leg of (tell false information to for fun)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s somebody

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