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Definition of Put one over
1. Verb. Fool or hoax. "You can't fool me!"
Specialized synonyms: Kid, Pull The Leg Of
Generic synonyms: Betray, Deceive, Lead Astray
Derivative terms: Dupe, Dupery, Fool, Fool, Gull, Put-on, Take-in
Definition of Put one over
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To succeed in a deception. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic with ''on'') To fool, trick, or deceive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Put One Over
Literary usage of Put one over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"To add one thing to another, to put one over another.—nr. To exalt or pat one's
self over or above other things. SOBREPUESTO, ТА, а. Counterfeit, fictitious ..."
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and edited by Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... it is again fining on the cords and left to drain, after which the cords are
put one over the other into the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(Л.-S.) .4) To recover ; to get over. North. (5) Important ; material. Exmoor.
(6) Too. Sir Perceval, 1956. (7) To put one over the door, to turn him out. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of Ohio by Carl Gustave Jahn, Circuit Courts, Ohio Circuit Courts, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court (1900)
"... but our state extends it to a case where the master has put one under another,
or where, by his direction, be has put one over another. ..."
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