: one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool
duped; duping
: to deceive or cheat easily : to make a dupe (see dupe entry 1) of
was duped into buying a counterfeit
duper
noun
plural dupes
informal
: duplicate
This new breed of browsing utility programs can also help you organize the pages you've retrieved, eliminating dupes, throwing out unwanted pages, and storing the useful ones in efficient hierarchies of folders.—
Fortune
Fortune"I dropped off the keys … before I left this morning, but I still have a dupe on my key ring."—Stephen King
Stephen King
duped; duping; dupes
informal
Examples of dupe in a Sentence
Noun (1)
an explanation of how the swindler was able to escape with all of the dupe's money
Verb (1)
They duped her out of $300.
we were duped into thinking the dummy was a real alien
Noun (2)
he built a dupe of the original model, which is locked in a vault
Recent Examples on the Web
Natalie Rice, CNBC, 31 May 2025
And while TikTok might be full of lip gloss dupe drama and fast trends, Juicy Tubes is the real deal.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 21 May 2025
Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 15 May 2025
TikTok, one particularly problematic Chinese export, is mental fentanyl designed to addict the Western masses and dupe them into poisonous ideologies—and Communist Party spyware, to boot.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Trader Joe’s just launched arguably the cheapest Dubai chocolate dupe at $3.99 per bar.
—Natalie Rice, CNBC, 31 May 2025
And while TikTok might be full of lip gloss dupe drama and fast trends, Juicy Tubes is the real deal.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 21 May 2025
Verb
Such technology can be used to generate text, images, audio and video to dupe potential victims into sending money, falling prey to sextortion and more.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 15 May 2025
TikTok, one particularly problematic Chinese export, is mental fentanyl designed to addict the Western masses and dupe them into poisonous ideologies—and Communist Party spyware, to boot.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Dupe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dupe. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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dupe
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: one who is easily deceived or cheated
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