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Take-in   /teɪk-ɪn/   Listen
Take-in

noun
1.
The act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone.





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"Take-in" Quotes from Famous Books



... was an exorbitant price for a place in the gallery: but as we'd been asked so much at the other doors, why I paid it without many words; but, then, to be sure, thinks I, it can never be like any other gallery, we shall see some crinkum-crankum or other for our money; but I find it's as arrant a take-in ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney


Words linked to "Take-in" :   deception, deceit, take in, dissimulation, dissembling


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