verb
- deceiving someone with a false or misleading story, especially as a prank or to cause public confusion
Usage: present participle of ‘hoax’
Examples
- The students were hoaxing their teacher with a fake news story.
- Someone has been hoaxing the media with false celebrity death reports.
- The pranksters spent weeks hoaxing their friends on social media.
- Police warned against hoaxing emergency services with false calls.
- The website was hoaxing visitors with fabricated historical facts.
- They were caught hoaxing the public about the supposed UFO sighting.