put sb on

mainly US informal — phrasal verb with put

/pʊt/ verb (present tense putting, past tense and past participle put)

Definition

› to try to deceive someone into believing something that is not true: She said she was planning to give her house to a charity for the homeless but I thought she was putting me on.Cheating and trickingPlotting and trapping

(Definition of put sb on from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Focus on the pronunciation of put sb on

Browse related topics

You are looking at an entry to do with Cheating & tricking, but you might be interested in these topics from the Honesty and dishonesty topic area: