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n. - As a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true.

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  • There was a little quiet leg-pulling but that was all.
  • The leg-pulling had stopped, but I sensed at all times the hostility from Briggs.
  • The purchase of a new car was invariably greeted with a bit of leg-pulling by most of the farmers.
  • ‘We’ve found out what we wanted to know, anyway,’ she said, ‘so a truce to the leg-pulling.
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