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What does hoodwink mean?

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Verb
  1. To deceive or trick.
  2. (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
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The Government has lashed out at trade and industry for adopting faulty accounting practices and indulging in misdeclarations to hoodwink the tax authorities.
Critics of fish farming are furious at what they consider to be an attempt to hoodwink the public.
Among other things, the show will feature Randi's demonstration of the cold-reading technique used by magicians to entertain and mediums to hoodwink an unsuspecting public.
Such a defence is offered only to hoodwink the gullible, illiterate and ignorant millions.
There are many wolves in sheepskin whose mission is to hoodwink the people at every turn with sugar-coated good-for-nothing promises.
Accomplished liars will beat polygraphs, mislead interrogators, and hoodwink the most sophisticated security regime.

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