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- noun Plural form of
put-on .
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Examples
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Of course, the audience for these extravagant put-ons is a considerably smaller one.
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Having watched it a second time, I know believe even more that it's genuine OR that it's one of the cleverest put-ons ever.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: "24," Fantasia"& Other New Releases That Make Easy Gifts Michael Giltz 2010
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Google makes your life easier with great search, but did you also know it's loaded with pranks, goofs, and put-ons?
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Having watched it a second time, I know believe even more that it's genuine OR that it's one of the cleverest put-ons ever.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: "24," Fantasia" & Other New Releases That Make Easy Gifts Michael Giltz 2010
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And yet they are never put-ons, never show-offs, and, above all, never artificial: they are not “made” but seem, rather, to have been born whole and delivered to us in a single breath.
Zelda. 2009
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Google makes your life easier with great search, but did you also know it's loaded with pranks, goofs, and put-ons?
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Now, I realize it was just me that he wanted—without the put-ons or the perfect-wife rep.
Sin in Soul's Kitchen Andrew Oye 2009
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Now it's the icy realms of black futurist electro, except in place of extra-terrestrial apocalypse, we get lame come-ons and brags that feel like put-ons.
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There's plenty of real hoaxters who have staged elaborate put-ons that we don't need to start applying the hoaxter accusation to everyone whose lives we don't understand.
Am I a liar? Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Google makes your life easier with great search, but did you also know it's loaded with pranks, goofs, and put-ons?
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