Definition for Hoax:

• A sportive deceptive trick; practical joke.

Synonyms for Hoax:

• n.

  •
  • ploy,
  • ruse,
  • dodge.
  •
  • deceive,
  • dupe,
  • double cross,
  • string along,
  • cheat,
  • bilk,
  • rip off.
  •cunning (noun)
  • wile.
  •deception (noun)
  • forgery,
  • subterfuge,
  • fraud,
  • bunco,
  • deception,
  • stratagem,
  • skullduggery,
  • humbug,
  • falsification,
  • flimflammery,
  • swindle.
  •falsification (noun)
  • fabrication,
  • lie.
  •hoax (noun)
  • fraudulence,
  • play a joke on,
  • humbug,
  • pull someone's leg,
  • fraud,
  • dupery,
  • put on.
  •hocus-pocus (noun)
  • Hocus.
  •imposition (noun)
  • dissimulation.
  •sleight of hand (noun)
  • hocus-pocus.
  •wile (noun)
  • skullduggery.

• v.

  •social (verb)
  • play a joke on,
  • pull someone's leg.
  •trick (verb)
  • deceive,
  • run a game on,
  • dupe,
  • delude,
  • bamboozle,
  • flimflam,
  • chicane,
  • sting,
  • gull,
  • murphy,
  • pull one's leg,
  • con,
  • fool,
  • set up,
  • fake out,
  • frame,
  • hoodwink,
  • play games with,
  • bluff,
  • take for a ride,
  • fleece,
  • gammon,
  • swindle,
  • rook.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • practical joke,
  • put-up job,
  • setup,
  • ploy,
  • jape,
  • sleight,
  • flimflam,
  • confidence game,
  • con game,
  • gamesmanship,
  • hustle,
  • scam,
  • ruse.
  •
  • fiddle,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • gag,
  • rumor,
  • dodge,
  • cheat,
  • whitewash.
  •
  • contrivance.
  •
  • fix,
  • maneuver.
  •bamboozle
  • mystify.
  •deceit
  • imposture.
  •deceive
  • lead on,
  • impose upon,
  • hoodwink,
  • outwit.
  •delude
  • mislead.
  •dupe
  • pull leg,
  • pull one's leg.
  •fool
  • fool,
  • fake out.
  •mislead
  • deceive.
  •outwit
  • outsmart,
  • outthink.
  •trickery
  • wile.
  •victimize
  • pigeon,
  • stacked deck.
  •Other relevant words:
  • entangle,
  • out-think,
  • pose,
  • josh,
  • rumor,
  • deceit,
  • erroneous,
  • copy,
  • deceive,
  • imposter,
  • performance,
  • Barney,
  • boloney,
  • fabrication,
  • lampoon,
  • dodge,
  • clinquant,
  • trick,
  • tommyrot,
  • posture,
  • cozen,
  • paste,
  • skin game,
  • above,
  • racket,
  • tall story,
  • deceptive,
  • cheat,
  • imitation,
  • Roorback,
  • shift,
  • take,
  • gimmick,
  • bilgewater,
  • play a joke on,
  • intrigue,
  • confidence trick,
  • antic,
  • lead astray,
  • imposition,
  • misrepresent,
  • leg-pull,
  • hooey,
  • let down,
  • double cross,
  • artificial,
  • pinchbeck,
  • junk,
  • delude,
  • blindfold,
  • puzzle,
  • frame-up,
  • set up,
  • fraudulence,
  • twist,
  • cheat on,
  • front,
  • outreach,
  • outwit,
  • jolly,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • sleight,
  • fake out,
  • dupe,
  • rip off,
  • befool,
  • confidence game,
  • snow job,
  • nobble,
  • forestall,
  • tarradiddle,
  • flummox,
  • gyp,
  • pull someone's leg,
  • murphy,
  • witty remark,
  • take for a ride,
  • hum,
  • mystify,
  • mock,
  • impose upon,
  • pigeon,
  • wind-up,
  • Double dealing,
  • job,
  • bilk,
  • guile,
  • caper,
  • whited sepulcher,
  • snatch,
  • pull leg,
  • stump,
  • snow,
  • mislead,
  • sell,
  • injurious,
  • frame,
  • chicanery,
  • pretender,
  • tinsel,
  • canard,
  • outsmart,
  • false,
  • have,
  • thimblerig,
  • get around,
  • jockey,
  • gamesmanship,
  • outplay,
  • tosh,
  • cog,
  • hustle,
  • faulty,
  • two-time,
  • faker,
  • snake oil,
  • hornswoggle,
  • run a game on,
  • sham,
  • tomfoolery,
  • have on,
  • act,
  • jilt,
  • specious,
  • contrivance,
  • abuse,
  • naughty,
  • confuse,
  • feint,
  • ruse,
  • humour,
  • duplicity,
  • jolly along,
  • Cully,
  • pretext,
  • pretend,
  • dissimulation,
  • tease,
  • inveigle,
  • circumvent,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • dishonorable,
  • frolic,
  • chatter,
  • DO,
  • outfox,
  • put-up job,
  • victimize,
  • gag,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • baffle,
  • bluff,
  • phoney,
  • libel,
  • whopper,
  • Subreption,
  • game,
  • counterfeit,
  • outmanoeuvre,
  • charade,
  • scam,
  • shoddy,
  • shammer,
  • false alarm,
  • dummy,
  • Flam,
  • fake,
  • rook,
  • defraud,
  • pluck,
  • fetch,
  • parody,
  • device,
  • con,
  • dupery,
  • appease,
  • cry of wolf,
  • hoodwink,
  • role player,
  • shell game,
  • crooked,
  • euchre,
  • feigning,
  • impostor,
  • affectation,
  • phony,
  • lie,
  • dust,
  • wile,
  • practical joke,
  • dishonest,
  • joke,
  • jest,
  • stance,
  • bubble,
  • confound,
  • juggle,
  • beguile,
  • twaddle,
  • fib,
  • Hanky Panky,
  • show,
  • crock,
  • misrepresentation,
  • beguiling,
  • fool,
  • overreach,
  • play one false,
  • reach,
  • misinform,
  • panel game,
  • prank,
  • ploy,
  • Cantrip,
  • flim-flam,
  • crafty,
  • conjure,
  • diddle,
  • burlesque,
  • fleece,
  • victimise,
  • detrimental,
  • machination,
  • caricature,
  • outmaneuver,
  • beat,
  • disloyal,
  • drivel,
  • pseud,
  • outthink,
  • put on,
  • bewilder,
  • takeoff,
  • drool,
  • faithless,
  • fictitious,
  • chouse,
  • trickery,
  • snooker,
  • jape,
  • twit,
  • whitewash,
  • mulct,
  • sneak,
  • mischief,
  • baloney,
  • untrue,
  • bunko game,
  • kid,
  • evil,
  • plant,
  • gull,
  • string along,
  • fast one,
  • bosh,
  • maneuver,
  • spoof,
  • lead on,
  • impose on,
  • ripoff,
  • conspiracy,
  • imposture,
  • pasquinade,
  • foist,
  • betray,
  • manoeuvre,
  • pull one's leg,
  • finagle,
  • horseplay,
  • bamboozle,
  • fast shuffle,
  • setup,
  • chicane,
  • gammon,
  • impose,
  • shenanigans,
  • artifice,
  • dido,
  • play games with,
  • sting,
  • deceitful,
  • con game,
  • pretence,
  • theft,
  • simulacrum,
  • rig,
  • bad,
  • Hocus,
  • string,
  • Fooling,
  • bite,
  • fiddle,
  • cajole,
  • blind,
  • catch,
  • loaded dice,
  • travesty,
  • Gloze,
  • sport,
  • stacked deck,
  • mockery,
  • gaff,
  • mischievous,
  • flimflam,
  • take-in,
  • nab,
  • fix.

Antonyms for Hoax:

• v.

  • trick
    give, be honest.

Hyponym for Hoax:

• v.

  • social
    deceive, lead on, cozen, delude.