English
Adjective
for fake (not comparable)
- (humorous) Not for real.
- 1990, Beverley Gasner, Girls at Lighthouse Point, Dutton, ISBN 0525248498, page 161,
- “[…] and Justin just kept mumbling to him, ‘Go away, go away, I want to sleep.’”
- “For real?”
- “For fake is what I think. But I don’t know […]”
- 2001, Niobia Bryant, Three Times a Lady, Kensington Books, ISBN 1583141650, page 283,
- “True,” Jordan said as he switched lanes effortlessly. “We’re staying in a renovated Victorian castle sitting on the edge of a lake.”
- “For real?” he asked, some interest now evident.
- “No, for fake,” Jordan joked. “Trust me, son. We’re gonna have fun.”
- 2004, Debbie Gardner and Mike Gardner, Raising Kids Who Can Protect Themselves, McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 0071437983, page 64,
- Sometimes, young children have learned they can delay their bedtime by creating false monsters and ghosts for attention. […] What the child learns besides delaying bedtime is, “It feels good to hide my eyes, get a big hug and lots of loving attention when I am afraid for real and for fake.”
- 2006, John Lawton, A Little White Death, Atlantic Monthly Press, ISBN 0871139324, page 97,
- Head nodding gently, knees crossed, all but tapping his foot to the human rhythm as though the groans and moans of coitus – for real or for fake – were more a concert on the Third Programme than a Home Servicing.
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