to catfish
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8.7
- verb
- /ˈkætˌfɪʃ/
- Slang
:
suplantar la identidad de
- She was devastated to discover that someone had catfished her while pretending to be a famous actor.
- go catfishing
The my next objective is to catfish you.
- The my next objective is to catfish you.
- And you know what transpired with all that situation being catfished?
- And what happens with that, by the way, it's when like you, you meet a girl online and it's really just a a big dude in his basement who's who's catfishing you for what?
- And remember the responsibility of that is on the bait and Switcher on the catfisher, not on the person being catfished.
Examples
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Oh, you got catfished.
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No, Imagine if I used this to catfish women into sending me money.
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Am I getting catfished here or...?
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I been catfishing him for about a month now, so...
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How do I know you're real and not someone catfishing me?
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I'm sorry you've been catfished.
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After weeks of chatting online, he realized he had been catfished by a fake profile created to trick him.
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I asked her how she could tell if she was being catfished, and she said to look for inconsistencies in the person's story.
Synonyms
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6.4
To pretend to be or feel something to trick people
To create or use a fake online account to deceive people
To pretend to be someone else to trick people
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.5
A freshwater fish with whisker-like feelers common in North America and often eaten
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6.4
A small fish with a thick body, broad flat head and whisker-like feelers near its mouth
A large catfish with bluish gray skin and a forked tail that lives in rivers like the Mississippi
A very large freshwater fish from European rivers that can grow over two meters
- Specialized
A large river fish with a flat head and a long pointed nose found in central United States
A large freshwater fish with a flat head and long spoon-shaped snout for finding food in muddy water
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Catfish as a verb comes from the same use in the 2010 film 'Catfish' and means 'to pretend to be someone else online to trick someone'. So to 'catfish' someone is to make a fake identity online and deceive them.