noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hoax call (= one intended to trick someone )
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They received a hoax call warning of a bomb in the building.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elaborate
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It was still not clear last night whether the tapes were an elaborate hoax .
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This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her.
■ NOUN
bomb
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Note the offence of making a bomb hoax call etc. under section 51 Criminal Law Act 1977.
call
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Note the offence of making a bomb hoax call etc. under section 51 Criminal Law Act 1977.
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Of 221 launches in answer to unidentified distress signals 216 turned out to be false alarms or hoax calls .
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Herron, 25, threatened 20-year-old waitress Helen Calderwood with the sack unless she made the hoax call last December.
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Last week's blast triggered several hoax calls .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I got an email about another computer virus, but I'm pretty sure it's just a hoax .
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The UFO sightings were revealed to be a hoax .
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To everybody's great relief, the bomb scare turned out to be a hoax .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hoax is a hoax, of course, but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga's grandson.
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At the school she discovered the call had been a hoax .
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Did Mr Hawthorne stand to gain from a hoax ?
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Had Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or was it a magnificent hoax ?
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The hoax devices were destroyed in controlled explosions by army bomb disposal experts, using remote-controlled vehicles.
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The rumor was that I had invented him to perpetrate a hoax and had actually written the books myself.
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Their vivid colouring is a hoax .
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What was really wonderful was that the paper swallowed the hoax whole.