: one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool
duped; duping
: to deceive or cheat easily : to make a dupe (see dupe entry 1) of
was duped into buying a counterfeit
duper
noun
plural dupes
informal
: duplicate
This new breed of browsing utility programs can also help you organize the pages you've retrieved, eliminating dupes, throwing out unwanted pages, and storing the useful ones in efficient hierarchies of folders.—Fortune
"I dropped off the keys … before I left this morning, but I still have a dupe on my key ring."—Stephen King
duped; duping; dupes
informal
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