To don (clothing, equipment, or the like). / To fool, kid, deceive. / To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense. / To play (a recording).

A deception, hoax, or practical joke.

present participle of put by

plural of PUT

(software, testing) Acronym of parameterized unit test. / (software, testing) Acronym of parameterized unit testing. / (electronics) Initialism of programmable unijunction transistor.

plural of putting

(rugby) restarting play by rolling or throwing the ball into the scrum; the right to do this

The quality of being putative.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of put to

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, it, to. / To put up for consideration. / To overload with work or obligations. / To blame on.