Definition of "hoodwinks" [hoodwinks]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink. (verb)

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• "What is happening has to be one of the biggest national 'hoodwinks' since Bush 'won' the 2000 election."
• "SEABROOK: And Nolan thinks keeping the donors secret actually hoodwinks the viewer into paying attention to the attack, rather than its purpose."
• "That story has had many narrators, but the consistent theme has been this: the Republican Party hoodwinks evangelicals and other conservative Christians to vote against their economic interests by keeping the culture war raging through constant talk of issues, namely abortion and gay rights, it never intends to deliver on."