fakeloo

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fakeloo (uncountable)

1. (US, slang, dated) A made-up story; a con.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 107:

     A fakeloo artist, a hoopla spreader, and a lad who had his cards rolled up inside sticks of tea, found on a dead man.

   • 1957, Dan Cushman, The Silver Mountain:

     All those fakeloo bummers and ink merchants, they bedazzle a girl. She's only human.