Definition of hoodwink

hoodwink

• to flirt with one's boyfriend behind his girlfriend's back.

  Girl, she just hoodwinked your man.

  Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by robin from Grand Rapids, MI, USA on Feb 03 2003.

• Stole, swiped, lifted.

  Man they hoodwinked all that stuff.

  Last edited on Feb 26 2003. Submitted by Matthew A. from Canton, OH, USA on Feb 26 2003.

verb - transitive

• to deceive by underhanded methods.

  The car salesman hoodwinked me into buying a lemon.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to take advantage of, cheat, trick.

  Last edited on Feb 22 2011. Submitted by Warren R. from Hayward, WI, USA on Jan 26 1999.

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Other terms relating to 'to take advantage of, cheat, trick':
juke	Definitions include: to defraud; "swindle".
sell out	Definitions include: to exit a previous arrangement, change one's mind, change one's usual behavior, etc.
punk	Definitions include: a disrespectful, rude, or otherwise unpleasant person.
bamboozle	Definitions include: to deceive using underhanded methods; "dupe"; "hoodwink".
throw a curveball	Definitions include: to give someone something unexpected.
rip off	Definitions include: to give someone a bad bargain.
dupe	Definitions include: to duplicate.
sponge off	Definitions include: to rely on others for things one wants or needs, especially food, shelter, etc.
fake	Definitions include: to fail to meet someone at a designated location.
bum steer	Definitions include: To mislead or to give (or receive) bad directions.
upper decker	Definitions include: defecating in the tank of a toilet, causing it to clog.
butter up	Definitions include: to flatter, especially for future gain.
sasser	Definitions include: to trick a person into doing something that like a good idea but will end in disaster.
pork	Definitions include: police.
stack the deck	Definitions include: to arrange things in one's favor.
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cut loose	Definitions include: to release a person from police custody.
sounding	Definitions include: Inserting objects into one's euretha
take a duke	Definitions include: to defecate.
fed up to (one's) eyebrows	Definitions include: extremely angry; "very fed up".
blucky	Definitions include: unwell.
bourgee	Definitions include: "bourgeois".
so what?	Definitions include: interjection of disinterest.
dumbsize	Definitions include: to reduce the number of people employed in an organization or company to the point that there are no longer enough to carry out the work effectively.
wuffo	Definitions include: an unknowledgeable observer who hangs around a hang gliding launching or landing area asking many questions; slang used by hangliders that wanna be skydivers.
rain closet	Definitions include: the shower.

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