kayfabe
n.— «Joe’s interview with you is called a kayfabe interview in the trade. Kayfabe is the wrestling pig-Latin term for fake. As in he kayfabed you about wrestling.» —“Cult songs, wrestling and deer, oh my” by John Kelso Austin American-Statesman (Texas) May 12, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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