Co znamená hoax v angličtině?

V tomto nejuznávanějším anglickém slovníku se můžete naučit hoax výslovnost, gramatiku a synonyma.

hoax Význam & definice

0 a trick played to deceive people -- podvod, falešná zpráva
- There wasn’t a bomb in the school at all – it was just a hoax.
1 to trick -- napálit
- They found out that they had been hoaxed.

However, all these speculations are even more tenuous than those required to investigate the hidden trails of deliberate hoaxes.
Historians can point to many other examples of hoaxes, successful or not.
After cleaning the data for erroneous entries, cancelled calls, hoax calls, etc, 2781 non-urgent emergency calls with a total of 4310 vehicle journeys were analysed.
Drift-message hoaxes could also relate to other maritime explorers.
The similarities indicate a common modus operandi, suggesting that the two reports were hoaxes perpetrated by the same individual.
On closer inspection, it appears to be a rather opaque hoax.
And a rarer category are historical events based on pure pretence, deliberately false at the time : in short, hoaxes.
But it was a hoax, and by no means the last of its kind.