DUPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dupe mean? 

• DUPE (noun)
  The noun DUPE has 1 sense:

1. a person who is tricked or swindled

  Familiarity information: DUPE used as a noun is very rare.

• DUPE (verb)
  The verb DUPE has 1 sense:

1. fool or hoax

  Familiarity information: DUPE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is tricked or swindled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dupe; victim

Hypernyms ("dupe" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dupe"):

butt; goat; laughingstock; stooge (a victim of ridicule or pranks)

chump; fall guy; fool; gull; mark; mug; patsy; soft touch; sucker (a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of)

lamb (a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters))

easy mark; sitting duck (a defenseless victim)

Derivation:

dupe (fool or hoax)

• DUPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dupe    ... he / she / it dupes   
Past simple: duped   
Past participle: duped   
-ing form: duping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fool or hoax

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

befool; cod; dupe; fool; gull; put on; put one across; put one over; slang; take in

Context example:

You can't fool me!

Hypernyms (to "dupe" is one way to...):

betray; deceive; lead astray (cause someone to believe an untruth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dupe"):

kid; pull the leg of (tell false information to for fun)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

dupe (a person who is tricked or swindled)

dupery (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)

 Context examples 

This letter gave Elizabeth some pain; but her spirits returned as she considered that Jane would no longer be duped, by the sister at least.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

How dared you? Poor stupid dupe!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Poor Harriet! to be a second time the dupe of her misconceptions and flattery.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But I would not have him taken in; I would not have him duped; I would have it all fair and honourable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself; but other ideas, other considerations, soon arose.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Listen to what I say!” she said; “and reserve your false arts for your dupes. Do you hope to move me by your tears? No more than you could charm me by your smiles, you purchased slave.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“That is the most unforgiving speech,” said Elizabeth, “that I ever heard you utter. Good girl! It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley's pretended regard.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was returned to Mansfield Park, she was useful, she was beloved; she was safe from Mr. Crawford; and when Sir Thomas came back she had every proof that could be given in his then melancholy state of spirits, of his perfect approbation and increased regard; and happy as all this must make her, she would still have been happy without any of it, for Edmund was no longer the dupe of Miss Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Here have we been, the whole winter and spring, completely duped, fancying ourselves all on an equal footing of truth and honour, with two people in the midst of us who may have been carrying round, comparing and sitting in judgment on sentiments and words that were never meant for both to hear.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)