hoax
hohks
- n something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- v subject to a playful hoax or joke
- Far-fetched as the hoax theory may seem, a 1999 Gallup poll showed that it's comparatively durable: 6% of Americans said they thought the lunar landings were fake, and 5% said they .
- In the latest in a disturbing string of campus fakes, a Princeton student's assault and death threats turn out to have been a hoax.
- On the 40th anniversary of the moon landing or was it just a sinister hoax? PTI looks at 10 of the world's most enduring conspiracy theories.