: one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool
duped; duping
: to deceive or cheat easily : to make a dupe (see dupe entry 1) of
was duped into buying a counterfeit
duper
noun
plural dupes
informal
: duplicate
This new breed of browsing utility programs can also help you organize the pages you've retrieved, eliminating dupes, throwing out unwanted pages, and storing the useful ones in efficient hierarchies of folders.—
Fortune
Fortune"I dropped off the keys … before I left this morning, but I still have a dupe on my key ring."—Stephen King
Stephen King
duped; duping; dupes
informal
Synonyms
Examples of dupe in a Sentence
Noun (1)
an explanation of how the swindler was able to escape with all of the dupe's money
Verb (1)
They duped her out of $300.
we were duped into thinking the dummy was a real alien
Noun (2)
he built a dupe of the original model, which is locked in a vault
Recent Examples on the WebRyan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
Grab this Stanley cup dupe for half the cost and in just as many colors.
—Brittany Leitner, StyleCaster, 4 Sep. 2024
Erielle Delzer, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2024
Google accused Local Lighthouse, a California marketing company, of placing robocalls to dupe small businesses into paying to improve their ranking in search results.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
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Noun
The video quickly burst into real life, as Eminem himself led the dupes through a door into the audience, and proceeded to rush the stage.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
Grab this Stanley cup dupe for half the cost and in just as many colors.
—Brittany Leitner, StyleCaster, 4 Sep. 2024
Verb
McKenzie Sadeghi, NewsGuard's AI and foreign influence editor, told CBS News that sham websites are designed to look like legitimate news sites to dupe readers into believing the information is coming from a reliable and legitimate source.
—Erielle Delzer, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2024
Google accused Local Lighthouse, a California marketing company, of placing robocalls to dupe small businesses into paying to improve their ranking in search results.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
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“Dupe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dupe. Accessed 28 Sep. 2024.
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dupe
1 of 2 noun
: one who is easily deceived or cheated
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