Definition of "let on" []

• To reveal, disclose, or divulge (verb)

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• "He could imagine Beechum removing his moldy green hat to scratch his head while saying, "Y'didn't let on as how y'wanted a door.""
• "It was the ploy I'd used on the slave-ship Balliol College in '48, when the Yankee Navy caught us off Cape San Antonio, and to save my skin I'd welcomed our captors with open arms and let on that I'd only been with the slavers to spy on them."
• "Two weeks before, at Mariam's prodding, Jalil had let on that an American film was playing at his cinema."