Definitions for dupe
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. victim, dupeverb

   a person who is tricked or swindled

2. gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one acrossverb

   fool or hoax

   "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dupenoun

   A person who has been deceived.

2. dupenoun

   A duplicate of a photographic image.

3. dupenoun

   A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.

4. dupenoun

   A duplicate.

5. dupeverb

   To swindle, deceive, or trick.

6. dupeverb

   To duplicate a photographic image.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DUPEnoun

   A credulous man; a man easily tricked.

   Etymology: dupe, French, from duppe, a foolish bird easily caught.

   An usurping populace is its own dupe, a mere underworker, and a purchaser in trust for some single tyrant. Jonathan Swift.

   First slave to words, then vassal to a name,
   Then dupe to party; child and man the same. Dunciad.

2. To Dupeverb

   To trick; to cheat.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   The throne a bigot keep, a genius quit;
   Faithless through piety, and dup’d through wit. Alexander Pope, Epist.

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1. dupe

   A "dupe" generally refers to a person who is easily deceived or tricked. Additionally, it can also describe a copy or imitation of something, often in the context of a product or item. In the digital world, it may also refer to a duplicate piece of data or information.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dupenoun

   one who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer

2. Dupenoun

   to deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery

3. Etymology: [F., prob. from Prov. F. dupe, dube; of unknown origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily caught. Cf. Armor. houprik hoopoe, a man easily deceived. Cf. also Gull, Booby.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dupe

   dūp, n. one easily cheated: one who is deceived or misled.—v.t. to deceive: to trick.—n. Dupabil′ity.—adj. Dū′pable.—n. Dū′pery, the art of deceiving others. [Fr. dupe; of uncertain origin.]

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1. DUPE

   What does DUPE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DUPE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dupe in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dupe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of dupe in a Sentence

1. Steve Fishman:

   At one point, Bernie Madoff cornered the hot chocolate market, bernie Madoff bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold Swiss Miss for a profit in the prison yard. Bernie Madoff monopolized hot chocolate ! Bernie Madoff made Swiss Miss so that if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff, once the Nasdaq chairman, used Bernie Madoff reputation and savvy to dupe sophisticated investors, regulators and Wall Street banks. Bernie Madoff confessed in December 2008 that Bernie Madoff was running a multi decade Ponzi scheme and that more than $ 65 billion Bernie Madoff claimed to have on hand for investors had dwindled to a few hundred million dollars from an original investment of about $ 20 billion. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C. Fishman reportedly hosts an Audible series called.

2. Thiruman Archunan:

   A man who evades his own conscience is a dupe.

3. Daniel Russel:

   Just as this week's 'tactical weapon' test was a signal to warn Trump that his much-vaunted 'freeze' is in jeopardy, the verbal attack on Pompeo is meant to encourage Trump to ignore his hardline advisers and make a deal with his 'friend' Kim Jong Un, as long as the North Koreans believe they can flatter and dupe the U.S. president into making important concessions ... they will resist dealing with less gullible and more demanding subordinate U.S. officials.

4. Suparna Gupta:

   It's not as if shutting them down stopped trafficking, but reopening them would legitimize it and give traffickers another reason to dupe and abuse women and girls, a majority of dance bars were doubling up as brothels, and we established a clear link between many rescued minor girls and these establishments.

5. State Department spokesman John Kirby:

   If somebody had mal intent going into that [process], and they had no prior record that would lead anybody in law enforcement or the security establishment to question their motives, you could easily see where somebody could dupe the system.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dupe
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dupe
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=dupe
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dupe
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=dupe
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dupe