1829 W. Maginn Noctes Ambrosianæ in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 133 With..the fogle-hunters doing. Their morning fake in the prigging lay.

1847 Bell's Life in London 4 July 7/4 He meant to..come, if required, the prolonging ‘fake’, to tire, weaken, and harrass his adversary.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 352/2 I tried the same caper; but my pal cut with the gold ring the first day, and I've never had another go at that fake since.

1877 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 28 Mar. 8/4 Two of the same four, were taken to the Armory for swindling L. A. Parker..out of $30 by means of the same old game, the snide jewelry ‘fake’.

1887 Financial News 24 Mar. 1/4 D..is generally regarded as the father of the testimonial fake.

1922 Sat. Evening Post 23 Sept. 97/2 Have you seen what he's giving you for your hard-earned money..? It's laundry soap, that's what it is! It's a fake, all a fake!

1954 Daily Mail 8 May 3/4 (headline) Forger tries traveller's cheque fake.

2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Mar. 9 The sheer fact that a victim has been strung along by someone they thought was a future husband and discover it was all a fake.

1893 Outing Mar. 112/2 The tackle wedge in which Upton made his long run in the Yale-Harvard game was a ‘fake’. Instead of sending a half-back into the little wedge the ball was given to Upton, the tackle on the other wing.

1924 Washington Post 19 Oct. (Sports section) 2/5 As the ball was passed he faked a play to Wood... The brilliant fake worked to perfection.

1952 F. Anderson Basketball Techniques Illustr. viii. 53 It is not practical to use many fakes..on your opponent unless you are close enough to him to make him respond.

1976 C. Brackenridge Women's Lacrosse i. 12 Whenever possible, you and your team should use fakes.

2018 Sunday Telegram (Worcester, Mass.) (Nexis) 4 Feb. Pitchers backed off the rubber 10 times, batters stepped out eight times. There were three fakes to second base.

1855 Christian Times 11 Apr. 237/3 The next person who addressed the meeting was described as an ‘Old fake’. He had been, he said, ‘a thief from his earliest childhood’.

1882 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 27 Sept. It is said that the score or so of other mutual ‘fakes’ will put up what they have taken from widows and dupes to put the ‘Pawnee’ on its legs again.

1885 M. Davitt Leaves from Prison Diary xii. 83 They are always taken in hand by the old ‘faikes’ (old experienced criminals), trained in all the ways of theft, and fixed for life in a circle of reproductive crime.

1888 Weekly Nebraska State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 13 July 5/3 The Roman that you ask of, merely is a Grand Old Fake. He has never seen a toga, he has never seen a shield.

1927 C. Wells Where's Emily? xiv. 237 This Swami is a heathen fake, who has come into this community here and bamboozled most of the women and some of the men into thinking he is a real priest.

1991 Washington Post 11 June b3/2 One [woman], an astronomer—actually, she's a fake; she's really only the secretary in the astronomy department—starts trying to tell him about physics.

2015 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Dec. c4 When Morton considers the mediums of the late 19th and early 20th centuries..she emphasizes that nearly all of them were ultimately proved to be fakes and charlatans.

1880 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 8 May 14/3 She used to walk the curbstone up in Amity street, and..the old fake got struck on her.

1884 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 11 Oct. 3/1 (heading) The old hen's dizzy girls, scene-chewing fakes and tart comedians of the day.

1927 F. Lonsdale The Fake iii. ii. 59 If you stood at this moment to be judged by these..people, you would have earned from them that which I can only ever feel for you—everlasting contempt…you Fake!

1934 N.Y. Amsterdam News 19 Mar. 9/1 I hate fakes and phonies and members of the ultra-intelligentsia who represent depravity as their art in order to flaunt and justify unnatural behavior.

1950 Times of India 24 Mar. 8/1 A so-called man-of-honour with no scruples whatsoever, a complete fake.

2013 C. J. Carmichael Big Sky Christmas vi. 83 Every time she'd smiled, she had felt like such a fake.

1877 G. E. Gee Pract. Gold-worker x. 140 This fluid [sc. soft-soldering fluid]..bears various names in the different workshops, such as ‘monkey’, ‘fake’, &c.

1877 Daily News 6 Dec. 2/6 Prisoner: Oh yes; 64 quarts of water to four quarts of [condensed] milk; that is what we call the ‘fake’.

1887 Daily Tel. 14 July 3/1 Swiss and German manufacturers are circularising London with respect to what is known as ‘unsweetened condensed [milk]’, from which is compounded a certain decoction termed ‘fake’.

1892 Work 14 May 141/1 You will not be able to buy fake, as it is not sold ready for use, but it is made in the following way: Take two hard heelballs [etc.].

1922 Harness Herald Oct. 24/2 Equal parts of white wax and bees wax mixed with turpentine makes an excellent fake for brown bottoms or fiddle waists.

1934 W. D. John Mod. Shoe Dressings vi. 86 Beeswax..is the best known of all the waxes..: its price is high, but large quantities are still used in producing the best grade of fakes.

1991 Gloss. Terms relating to Footwear (U.S. Bureau of Indian Standards) 11/2 Fakes, water emulsified waxes to produce oil-in-water dispersions which may be of a thin creamy nature or in the form of thick paste.

1810 Sydney Gaz. 2 June One of the persons then said ‘here are fifty soldiers after us; we'll faik them as they pass;’ to which the other replied; ‘no, we'll take no life if we can help it.’

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To fake any person or place, may signify to rob them; to fake a person, may also imply to shoot, wound, or cut; to fake a man out and out, is to kill him; a man who inflicts wounds upon, or otherwise disfigures, himself, for any sinister purpose, is said to have faked himself;..it also describes the doing any act, or the fabricating any thing..to fake a screeve, is to write any letter, or other paper; to fake a screw, is to shape out a skeleton or false key, for the purpose of screwing a particular place; [etc.].

1873 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 9 Oct. A Crawfordsville boy, in telling how he kissed his sweetheart in the dark, said he ‘doused the glim, and faked a smack’.

1884 A. Pinkerton Thirty Years a Detective 96 When the thief has properly ‘faked’ the room, as he calls it—that is, ‘fixed’ it for his entrance in the evening, the hole is already bored in its proper place.

1885 Sat. Rev. 24 Jan. 101/2 Not even by faking tin perambulators, wire puzzles,..and so forth, ready-made out of another cove's swag, could the speaker any longer make an honest livelihood.

1887 A. Barrère Argot & Slang 247/1 Maquiller (thieves' [slang]), to do, ‘to fake’... The word ‘maquiller’ has as many different meanings as the corresponding term ‘to fake’.

1941 K. Tennant Battlers xxviii. 309 The camps at Boswell were full of people who ‘faked’ or ‘dropped’ small articles: artificial flowers.., brooches made of feathers, patent polishing powder—anything and everything to bring in ready money.

1879 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 21 July They [sc. clothes] were found to have been ‘faked’ from different parties.

1882 Atlantic (Iowa) Daily Tel. 2 Oct. They talk of their new plays, but there's nothing new in them; they're all ‘faked’ from old ones.

1922 Strand Mag. Mar. 219/2 She happened to lean a little too heavily on the bed (which was ‘faked’ from a number of ginger-beer crates).

1981 Hudson Rev. 34 134 What they can't admit is that art is over-rated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and tooth-picks, should know best of all.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To fake your slangs, is to cut your irons in order to escape from custody; to fake your pin, is to create a sore leg, or to cut it, as if accidentally..in hopes to obtain a discharge from the army or navy, to get into the doctor's list, &c.

1841 Satirist 4 Apr. 111/2 A waiter..discovered him ‘faking the broads’, id est, marking a pack of cards.

1909 London Munic. Accts. Jan. 15 They have faked the accounts by charging to the rates, instead of to the tramways, more than two-thirds of the cost of tramway widenings.

1919 Warwick (Queensland) Daily News 5 Sept. 7/2 The sides of the cards are faked in such a way that the dealer knows what cards he is dealing to other players.

1954 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 2 May 41/6 From his lofty aspirations it was a comedown to be charged with fraudulent conversion and faking the bank's books.

2013 Independent (Nexis) 11 Oct. 32 The guards responsible for observing Castro faked their logs, after failing to perform sufficient checks in the hours leading up to his death.

1846 Bell's Life in London 3 May 6/4 On his return to the Cross Keys at Hednesford he was very ill from the severe punishment he had received, and it was generally thought he had been ‘faked’.

1847 Era 8 Aug. 6/1 In order to do away with the impression that the latter was faked by any one of his party, he (Akers) will run him the same distance, and give him fifteen yards.

1871 Sporting Gaz. 4 Feb. 67/2 To another member of the trotting school attached the credit of having ‘faked’ the horse's jockey.

1874 Birmingham Daily Post 2 Oct. 6/6 The prisoner complained that some one had ‘faked’ the engine.

1872 [implied in: ‘Stonehenge’ Dogs Brit. Islands (ed. 2) vi. 127 The practised eye can tell the ‘faked’ ears of bulldogs and fox-terriers as easily as we can discover wigs and such base artifices. (at faked adj.)].

1874 Sporting Gaz. 10 Oct. 948/3 Many dogs have had their ears ‘faked’, but we have pleasure in stating that in this show we have not detected many cases.

1876 Sporting Gaz. 23 Dec. 1256/2 Assuming the owner had faked the dog to cover a defect of age—grey hair—surely if it was necessary to expose the artifice, it was also indispensable that the test should [etc.].

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 July 10/2 This was a case of ‘faking’ a bird for exhibition.

1921 Dogdom May 132/2 It was pretty well believed that the dog had been faked whilst under the care or superintendence of a North of England fox terrier fancier.

1978 J. Wunderlich in L. Stromberg Exhibiting Poultry 43 He could not understand how these old birds looked so nice and the young birds looked so terrible... They had been faked.

2014 L. Begin-Kruysman Dog's Best Friend iv. 100 Those dogs whose appearance had been ‘faked’ through artificial means or had the color of their coats enhanced with dye were also not permitted to compete in the show ring.

1887 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 17 Nov. 5/3 The best evidence that the contests are not ‘faked’ is the fact that the employes about the show watch the act closely at every performance.

1901 Boston Daily Globe 19 Jan. 5/5 The report that he and McGovern faked their contest at New York.

1920 Our Navy (U.S.) Mar. 43/3 Jack was discharged from the Navy with an ‘undesirable’ discharge because he faked a bout—layed down to a rank beginner.

1956 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 5 Aug. 14 a/9 In the manner of a dishonest boxing promoter faking a fight for his own gain.

2011 Mirror (Nexis) 5 Feb. 7 All three players have previously denied all knowledge of spotfixing, in which specific parts of a match are faked for bookmakers.

1876 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 30 Jan. There are expressions..peculiar to the different crafts, such as the actors, ‘winging a part’, ‘faking a scene’, ‘flies’, etc.

1885 H. P. Grattan in The Stage 10 July A pair of shoes to fake the patchey (Anglice play the harlequin).

1890 St. Paul (Minnesota) Daily News 26 July 6/1 To ‘fake’ lines is to invent lines when the proper ones have been forgotten.

1923 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 Fake, to improvise speeches in place of forgotten ones.

1895 Jrnl. Pract. Med. (N.Y.) June 488/2 She [sc. a soprano with laryngitis] went on the stage and did very nicely, though she told me afterwards that she ‘faked’ whenever she could.

1901 Evening Democrat (Fort Madison, Iowa) 8 Feb. (advt.) Wanted.—Lady that can sing and fake organ.

1915 Christensen's Ragtime Rev. Sept. 18/2 When any very high-class music..is encountered in a vaudeville theater, the performer usually has a piano part so that the pianist will not be put to the task of attempting to invent or ‘fake’ an accompaniment to it.

1926 Melody Maker Jan. 20 In those days..the dance band was not studied by the orchestrator as it is now, and one had to ‘fake’ saxophone and banjo parts from those of such other instruments as were catered for in the score.

1933 Fortune Aug. 92/3 It is no exaggeration to say that his band of fourteen can fake (improvise) as adroitly as the early five-piece combinations.

1944 Spotlight Jan. 18 There was enough good music ‘faked’ in those days.

2010 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 17 June (77 Square section) 16 If you didn't know a song, you basically had to get good at faking a song.

1883 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sunday Gaz. 30 Sept. 6/3 If Majilton gets a first rate piece with some snap and go about it, ‘faked’ or written for him..he may make some money.

1883 World (N.Y.) 31 Oct. 4/2 Nobody ever suspects the Herald of ‘faking’ news, and yet the thrilling and startling special entitled ‘A Vienna Tragedy’..was a clear case of bogus news-mongering in the first degree.

1886 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 23 Dec. The numerous alleged interviews printed in the Newark, New York and Jersey City papers were ‘faked’ out of the whole cloth by ambitious journalists.

1889 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 12 Sept. All the strained relations that are alleged to exist between the Governor and the General exist alone in the mind of the newspaper man who faked the story.

1913 W. G. Bleyer Newspaper Writing & Editing xiv. 354 The ‘cub’ [reporter] may..hear his humorous little feature story praised..by his superiors who know that it is largely imaginary..he may consciously or unconsciously decide that fiction makes better news than truth, and may proceed to write his stories accordingly. Encouraged by some other newspaper man's account of a similar exploit, he ‘fakes’ an interview when he fails to get one that has been assigned to him.

1922 Editor & Publisher 5 Aug. 20/2 Charging, by inference, that everyone faked the story of the fight of the woman detective of Best & Co. with a six-foot man on Fifth avenue.

2004 Mirror (Nexis) 26 Mar. 10 Ollie has faked every story he's ever written, including the Mafia series he's just filed.

1884 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. 4/7 There is a way of ‘faking’ a wind machine in a country theatre that does not possess the genuine article.

1886 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 15 Jan. It was he who went to Burmah to buy, beg, steal or fake a white elephant. Now that it is all over, people can read in Davis's eye that the elephant was faked.

1898 J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. 179 His embroideries, to use theatrical slang, were ‘faked’. On a groundwork of white satinette he stencilled patterns, with brown ‘smudge’.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn viii. 108 See how I've faked this figure? It isn't a real person at all.

1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xxii. 248 I am supposed to have faked an alibi, suborned my friends and played merry hell generally.

1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 469/1 Tanagra figures have been much admired..and much faked.

1997 Total Film Sept. 112/5 The plan had been to fake gun damage to a windscreen with a catapult and a ball-bearing.

2015 J. Nelson I'll give you Sun (U.K. ed.) 243 So he faked the call and was pretend-talking to no one just to get away from me?

1887 Maitland (New S. Wales) Mercury 7 May Sure the best reporters are those who know how to ‘fake’, if they only ‘fake’ artistically.

1893 Let. 26 Sept. in Docs. Assembly (N.Y. State) (1894) XVII. No. 89. 2111 If you say you are sick the doctor asks if you was ever sick with a belly full of beer, and gives you a report, one dollar, and says you are faking.

1908 Smart Set Sept. 39 I knew that..it had no curative power and I didn't want to be caught faking.

1915 W. D. Chandler in Supplementary Lect. Journalism 77 There was a time when reporters, good, bad and indifferent, used to fake. But only the bad and indifferent fake now.

2005 S. K. Shelton What comes after Crazy (2006) xxiii. 198 Are you really sleeping, or are you faking?

1889 Daily Morning Republican (Fresno, Calif.) 19 Nov. His wish was granted on condition that he would fake extreme illness.

1911 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 6 32 The idea of faking amnesia presented itself to him through a leading question put by the examining physicians.

1941 London Opinion Apr. 42/1 Faking an interest in the goods displayed.

1943 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten iii. 148 I..hid my face in my hands and faked some sobs.

1987 C. Fisher Postcards from Edge 99 It would be hard for me to believe a woman could fake an orgasm with me.

2006 Play: N.Y. Times Sports Mag. June 68/3 Players who dive and fake injuries when someone sweats a little too close to them.

1889 Deseret Weekly (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 21 Sept. 390/1 Brodie says he swam Horseshoe Falls this morning and was picked up in the river below... Niagara Falls people believe that Brodie ‘faked’ the jump.

1905 Sunday Outlook (Georgetown, S. Carolina) 11 Nov. His death was faked in order that he might escape arrest.

1992 Washington Post 11 Jan. a17/1 Think of how entertaining it would be to have Stone ‘prove’ that..the moon landing was faked in a TV studio.

2014 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 Jan. 6 A woman who claimed no one came to her aid as a group of men tried to abduct her in daylight has been charged, with police claiming she faked the event.

1907 Fresno (Calif.) Morning Republican 17 Nov. 23/5 Collins faked a punt, passing the ball over the line to Morgan.

1915 Philadelphia Inquirer 19 Oct. 10/6 Two backs made a feint to one side of centre, and quarter-back, low behind his centre, faked a pass.

1933 F. C. Allen in Scholastic Coach Nov. 8/2 Just previous to his break to the front, he should fake to cut back behind his guard for the basket.

1974 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 1 Apr. 4 b/2 Then Robertson, driving toward the foul line, faked past two defenders and sank a twisting, lunging jumper.

1999 G. Cox Dict. Sport i. 11/2 The quarter-back fakes a pass before handing off to the running back, who goes into the gap left by the defensive linemen.

2006 Times of India 28 June 29/2 The 29-year old Real Madrid forward faked right, then used his trademark stepover move to switch left.

1930 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 29 Dec. 6/3 The Norsemen were repeatedly faked out of position by the Powellmen's speedy accurate passes.

1952 F. Anderson Basketball Techniques Illustr. viii. 53 Being able to fake the opponent out of position before you start to dribble..makes you a doubly effective offensive threat.

1972 Jet 16 Nov. 51/2 Robinson ran to second and I thought he was going to third but he faked me.

2009 R. J. Noyes & P. J. Robertson Guts in Clutch 97 Michael grabbed the ball, dribbled down the court, faked an opponent so completely that he fell onto the floor.., pulled up and launched a 20-foot, game-and-series-winning jumper.