das Wörterbuch Englisch Minus Englisch
- hoax Englisch:
1. 
fabrication
I heard that a gay priest had been promoted to the rank of bishop, but it turned out to be a fabrication.
2. something intended to deceive or defraud
3. a false warning about something dangerous
4. joke
It's no joke.
A cracker contains a small toy, a paper hat and a piece of paper with a joke.
In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.
You're probably going to think this is a joke, but I was a punk rocker when I was a kid.
The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.
What kind of jokes should be forbidden?
Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.
In fact, there is a joke about passport photos: If you really look like the picture in your passport, you certainly need a vacation!
An Englishman, a Belgian and a Dutchman enter a pub and sit down at the counter. Says the barkeeper, "Wait a minute, is this a joke or what?"
Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!
Christopher Columbus once used the same joke 256 times in one day... thereby causing his entire crew to die of laughter.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.
If you repeat a joke two hundred fifty six times, it will set everybody's teeth on edge.
5. a plan to deceive someone
6. anything deliberately intended to decide or trick
7. scam
That scam cost me a lot of money.
an insurance scam
Don't you scam around, guys. This job must be done by tomorrow.
Emails sent by financial institutions are most often scam, they would never contact you via email.
a big marketing scam to sell more
The offer of a "free" vacation to Florida sounds like a scam to me.
I tried to scam IRS and that's why I'm up the river now.
Mark was trying to scam Joan, but she wasn't interested.
I was a little distracted by Jack who was scamming with Joan on the back seat.
My boss is a noid. He thinks that everybody tries to scam him.
Have you heard about the latest scam?
But this is without doubt a scam which requires a European response
The young person was reported to have scammed pensioners from their savings.
Definition a scam is a dishonest and illegal way of getting money from people by cheating them
No scam is too outrageous.
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