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Definitions
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player
Word origin
The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen, from Middle Low German vēgen, from Old Saxon fegōn, from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”).
Used in a sentence
“Which fur coat looks fake?”
“I suspect this passport is a fake.”
“to fake a marriage”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“deceptive move”4 letters
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