dupe

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

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• Rhymes: -uːp
• Hyphenation: dupe

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

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: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

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

   • 1991 August 31, Sonia de Vries, “The Real Enemies Of Humanity Are Here At Home”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 7, page 4:

     I am responding to Allen Young's letter to the editor concerning two articles I wrote for GCN about my experiences in Cuba. The gist of Mr. Young's letter is that I am a commie dupe and the Cubans who shared there opinions and experiences with me were simply lying.

• dupery

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

1. To swindle, deceive, or trick.

Clipping of duplicate.

dupe (plural dupes)

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

        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.

   4. (informal, by extension) A cheap consumer product intended to imitate a more expensive product.
      • 2023 February 21, Daisy Lester, “Revolution has launched a £10 alternative to Charlotte Tilbury’s £65 magic serum”, in The Independent‎^[2]:

        The dupe lived up to expectation in our head-to-head review, where we concluded that Revolution’s affordable formula is a “perfectly worthy alternative that won’t see you digging too deep into your pocket.”

• dedupe
• slash dupe

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.

• E'd up, pued

dupe

1. ghost

• English: duppy

Borrowed from French dupe, from Middle French [Term?].

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

dupe m (plural dupes)

1. victim

   Synonym: slachtoffer

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

dupe f (plural dupes)

1. a person who has been deceived

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

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

dupe

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

• “dupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dupę.

• IPA^(key): /dûpe/

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

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

• “dupe”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪u.pe/

dupe

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

Conjugation of dupe (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		todupe	modupe	adupe
2nd person		nodupe	fodupe
3rd person	inanimate	idupe	dodupe
	animate
imperative		nudupe, dupe	fudupe, dupe

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics