catfishing
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- noun
- /ˈkætˌfɪʃɪŋ/
- Slang
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suplantación
- This friend claims Brittany is the one leading the double life and is a lying catfishing con artist.
I carted her to make sure she was real because Pete, catfishing is a real thing.
- I carted her to make sure she was real because Pete, catfishing is a real thing.
- Sarah says catfishing made her feel like a better person because being someone else is better than being her.
- And I just, yeah, I think catfishing is so mean.
- So I'm going to talk about catfishing today and the title was not just something that we were you in.
Examples
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I carted her to make sure she was real because Pete, catfishing is a real thing.
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Many social media users express concerns about catfishing and the dangers of trusting online strangers.
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And I just, yeah, I think catfishing is so mean.
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Sarah says catfishing made her feel like a better person because being someone else is better than being her.
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So I'm going to talk about catfishing today and the title was not just something that we were you in.
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Catfishing is often done to manipulate people into catfishing them in order to steal money or personal information.
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She became a victim of catfishing when someone created a fake profile to steal her identity.
Synonyms
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To use dishonest ways to cheat people
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Pretending to be someone else online to trick people
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To pretend to be someone else to trick people
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Pretending to be someone else or making up a false reason to get private information
Cheating people to get their money or an advantage
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Catfishing for online trickery comes from the fish catfish and a story in a popular documentary. The film used the idea of a 'catfish' keeping other fish lively, so a helpful way to remember it is that a 'catfish' online keeps a relationship 'alive' with a fake identity, and therefore catfishing means creating a fake online person to deceive someone.