fake

1. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.Synonyms: feint, deke

2. (archaic) A trick; a swindlearchaic

1. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.transitive

2. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.Examples: "to fake a marriage"; "to fake happiness"; "to fake a smile"Synonyms: pass off, posetransitive

3. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.archaic

4. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really isExamples: "He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not."Synonyms: adulteratearchaic

5. (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.Examples: "Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard."; "In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation."ambitransitive

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

1. (nautical) 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.