Falschmeldung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- hoax noun Something made up on purpose to trick or deceive people.
Senses
Falschmeldung is used for these senses in English:
- false alarm (archaic, idiomatic) A person who pretends to be more accomplished or a thing that seems to be of higher quality than is later found to be the case.
- false positive A result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.
- hoax Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
hoax — full definition
- noun Something made up on purpose to trick or deceive people.
- verb To trick someone into believing something false.
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