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• n  someone who plays practical jokes on others

• Footprints on the muddy banks were later found to have been made by a hoaxer using a stuffed hippopotamus foot.
• Or the persistence of the hoaxer.
• I imagined that he would eventually reveal himself as a hoaxer and shout, "You see, people, there is nothing real or authentic about multicultural literature.

• prankster
• cut-up
• trickster
• tricker
• practical joker

News & Articles

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• Fake Alien In Freezer Hoax Lands Chinese Man In Jail
  A fake alien in the freezer has landed a Chinese farmer in jail. According to the bizarre report on Thursday, a man known only as Mr. Li supposedly uploaded a bunch of photographs and a wild story to Weibo, the Chinese government’s answer to Twitter. The confabulating hoaxer said that he observed a UFO landing [...] Fake Alien In Freezer Hoax Lands Chinese Man In Jail is a post from: The Inquisitr
  June 13, 2013 - The Inquisitr

Quotes

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• Helen Demidenko in NEWS.com.au
  I will make only one suggestion: hoaxer, if you're reading this, out yourself. I failed to out myself back in the day and the reaction was much worse as a result,Dale wrote on her Skeptic Lawyer blog yesterday.