dupe someone into doing something collocation to deceive someone so that they do something they did not intend to do: The store claims it was duped into buying high-quality fake bags. They sent false emails in order to dupe a journalist into revealing sources. See
dupe He is duped by a bogus astronomer into thinking he is on the moon. He says he was duped by a close friend into taking a bag containing the drugs through customs. People were duped into saving in a pension fund they thought was guaranteed. The girls were duped by drug smugglers into carrying heroin for them.这些女孩受毒品走私贩欺骗为他们运送海洛因。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle feint flannel game-fixing grift grifter gull gyp have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom prankster pretext pretextual pull pull a fast oneidiom |