dupe

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːp/, (with yod coalescence) IPA^(key): /dʒuːp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /duːp/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -uːp
• Hyphenation: dupe

Etymology 1

From French duper, from Middle French duppe, alteration of huppe (“hoopoe”), from Latin, onomatopoeic.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

1. A person who has been deceived.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dupe

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 55, in Pride and Prejudice: , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC:

     It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley's pretended regard.

Related terms

• dupery

Translations

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

1. To swindle, deceive, or trick.

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of duplicate.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

1. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
2. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
3. (informal) A duplicate.
4. (informal, TikTok) A counterfeit; a fake.
   • 2020 March 1, Megan Graham, “TikTok teens are obsessed with fake luxury products”, in CNBC‎:

     TikTok could potentially be liable if lots of users are directing other users to the sales of dupes, she said, and she said if users have an affiliate relationship with the sellers of counterfeit goods, they could also potentially be liable.

Derived terms

• dedupe
• slash dupe

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

1. (transitive) To duplicate.

   Synonyms: double; see also Thesaurus:duplicate

   Antonyms: dedupe, halve

   Can you dupe this photo for me?

   • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 379:

     That night, a shaken camera operator dupes the tape and leaks a copy to the press.

Anagrams

• E'd up, pued

Bube

Noun

dupe

1. ghost

Descendants

• English: duppy

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dupe, from Middle French .

Pronunciation

• (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdypə/
• Hyphenation: du‧pe

Noun

dupe m (plural dupes)

1. victim

   Synonym: slachtoffer

Related terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyp/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -yp

Noun

dupe f (plural dupes)

1. a person who has been deceived

   être dupe ― to be taken in, be fooled, be duped

Usage notes

• A negative polarity item, very often found in the construction ne pas être dupe.

Verb

dupe

1. inflection of duper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “dupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dupę.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûpe/

Noun

dȕpe n (Cyrillic spelling ду̏пе, diminutive dupénce)

1. (mildly vulgar) ass

   Synonym: gùzica

   Imaš l(ij)epo dupe. ― You have a nice ass.

2. (mildly vulgar, derogatory) ass, jerk, dipshit; an annoying, contemptible, obnoxious person

Usage notes

May be construed as endearing rather than vulgar when used by a romantic couple.

Declension

Further reading

• “dupe” in Hrvatski jezični portal

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪u.pe/

Verb

dupe

1. (transitive) to throw away
2. (transitive) to drop (an anchor)

Conjugation

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics