fakeloo
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fakeloo (uncountable)
- (US, slang, dated) A made-up story; a con.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 107:
- A fakeloo artist, a hoopla spreader, and a lad who had his cards rolled up inside sticks of tea, found on a dead man.
- 1957, Dan Cushman, The Silver Mountain:
- All those fakeloo bummers and ink merchants, they bedazzle a girl. She's only human.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 107: