Definition of "fake"

fake¹

/feɪ̯k/

adjective
comparative faker or more fake, superlative fakest or most fake
1. Not real; false, fraudulent
2. (of people) Insincere
noun
plural fakes
1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
2. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
3. (archaic) A trick; a swindle
verb
third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked
1. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
2. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
3. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
4. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
  Quotations
  He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.
  1944, George Henderson, The Farming Ladder
5. (music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
  Quotations
  Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.
  1994, ITA Journal, volume 22, page 20
  In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.
  Denning, cited in 2020, Matt Brennan, Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (page 110)

/feɪ̯k/

noun
plural fakes
1. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb
third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked
1. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.