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Definition of Fake

Fake

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

To make; to construct; to do.

To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

A trick; a swindle.

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Fake Quotations

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

Fake it until you make it.
Steven Tyler

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
Harry Houdini

Hippies are so phoney and fake.
George Harrison

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Orson Welles

I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.
Zac Efron

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
Matt Damon

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
Etta James

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
Vivien Leigh

Anything that consoles is fake.
Iris Murdoch

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.
Sasha Alexander

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.
Jennifer Lopez

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.
Giorgio Armani

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
Joan Jett

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Sharon Stone

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
Victoria Abril

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
Dave Grohl

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.
Jim Bakker

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
Joseph Brodsky

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
Claire Bloom

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
Robertson Davies

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Fake Translations

fake in German is falsch, Schwindel
fake in Norwegian is forfalskning, forfalske

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