faker

IPA: fˈeɪkɝ

One who fakes something.
An impostor or impersonator.
(military, by extension) A friendly unit (usually aircraft) that acts as a hostile unit in a military exercise.
(obsolete) A thief.
(obsolete) A peddler of petty things.
A snake oil salesman; one who makes exaggerated claims about a product he sells.

Examples of "faker" in Sentences

Djokovic did not take kindly to being called a faker, and beat Roddick in the quarter-finals in New York.
But when I checked the OED definition, I found that the OED gives it a sense of "faker" as an Americanism.
The implication, it seems to me, is that 'faker' is not just an occasional misuse but a common US meaning, and I don't agree.
And by the way, do you suppose that this guy actually uses the word faker in his screen name might be a clue to his authenticity?
The method of working in the poorer specimens is very simple, and it pays the "faker" to sell for £2 or £3 what takes, perhaps, only half a day to produce.
“Every dollar that’s lost to a faker is one more dollar that can’t be spent on a veteran,” said O’Neill, whose office is responsible for rooting out those who defraud VA.
This video Sen. Mike Duffy calling Peter Stoffer MP, a "faker" prior to dashing off an RCMP mess dinner, and this post at Dawg's, caused me to imagine a near future headline reading "Mike Duffy appointed RCMP Commissioner".
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