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hoodwink
(redirected from hoodwinker)

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hoodwink someone into something
Fig. to deceive someone into doing something. She will try to hoodwink you into driving her to the airport. Watch out. You can't hoodwink me into doing that!

hoodwink someone out of something

Fig. to get something away from someone by deception. Are you trying to hoodwink me out of my money? Max tried to hoodwink the old lady out of all her money.
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A treasury of deception; liars, misleaders, hoodwinkers and the extraordinary true stories of history's greatest hoaxes, fakes and frauds.
1995 An early success in the riding career of Richard Johnson who partners Derring Bridge, trained by his mother Sue, owned by his father Keith and bred by his grandfather Ivor, to get the better of Hoodwinker in the novice hurdle at Ludlow.
40 but the one to beat here is Ludlow specialist HOODWINKER.
 
 
 
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