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
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Synonyms and related words:
- a numbers game idiom
- bamboozle verb
- blackmail verb
- bullshit verb
- casuistry noun
- deceive verb
- fiddle noun (DISHONEST BEHAVIOUR)
- fiddle verb (CHEAT)
- flannel verb
- hoax verb
- hocus-pocus noun
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