pump-fake

verb

To pretend to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.

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Meanings

verbpump-fake (third-person singular simple present pump-fakes, present participle pump-faking, simple past and past participle pump-faked)

present singular third person pump-fakes · participle present pump-faking · participle past pump-faked · past pump-faked

  1. hobbiesTo pretend to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.

    The way he pump-fakes it in the Oval Office is really distracting.

    2003 December 18, "Bush Won't Put Down New Football", The Onion, available in, 2005, Embedded in America, p. 51
nounpump-fake (plural pump-fakes)

plural pump-fakes

  1. alternativehobbiesAlternative form of pump fake.
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APA

pump-fake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pump-fake

MLA

“pump-fake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pump-fake. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pump-fake,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pump-fake.

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