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pulls one's leg
phrasepresent tense third-person singular of pull one's leg
Synonyms & Antonyms of pulls one's leg
to cause to believe what is untrue
- He was just pulling your leg when he said he won the lottery.
Synonyms for pulls one's leg
- bamboozles,
- beguiles,
- bluffs,
- buffaloes,
- burns,
- catches,
- cons,
- cozens,
- deceives,
- deludes,
- dupes,
- fakes out,
- fools,
- gaffs,
- gammons,
- gulls,
- has,
- has on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxes,
- hoodwinks,
- hornswoggles,
- humbugs,
- juggles,
- misguides,
- misinforms,
- misleads,
- snookers,
- snows,
- spoofs,
- strings along,
- suckers,
- sucks in,
- takes in,
- tricks
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