hoaxer [
'hoksɚ]
n. 欺骗者
hoaxer[ noun ]
someone who plays practical jokes on others
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Hoaxer \Hoax"er\, n.
One who hoaxes.
- The hoaxer also provided the same story to UPI and City News Service, a metropolitan Los Angeles wire service.
- There had been no terrorist conspiracy. Yet the RUC seemed unembarrassed by its own use of emergency legislation in the PTA to unmask the supposed hoaxer.
- The hoaxer said Miss Taylor underwent an abdominal biopsy and was expected to be released from the hospital within two weeks on the arm of Julian Lee Hobbs of Lake Orion, Mich., described as Miss Taylor's boyfriend.
- The hoaxer used an elaborate scheme including a public relations firm's answering service to trick the news media into the phony story about Miss Taylor, who has been hospitalized for two months.