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PUT ONE OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fool or hoax
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 over" 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 over"):
kid; pull the leg of (tell false information to for fun)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
