take-in, n. (a.) colloq.
(ˈteɪkˌɪn)
[The verbal phrase take in used as n. or adj.]
An act of taking in (take v. 84 o); a cheat, swindle, deception; a thing or person that takes one in, a ‘fraud’.
| 1778 F. Burney Evelina (1791) I. xxi. 105, I find it's as arrant a take-in as ever I met with. 1814 Jane Austen Mansf. Park v, What is this but a take in? 1818 Blackw. Mag. II. 398 There are..at least twenty take-ins (as they are called) for one true heiress. 1858 Lytton What will he do i. xii, Comedians are such takes in. |
b. attrib. or adj. That takes in; deceptive.
| 1819 Metropolis III. 119 Tales of a take-in match and a vicious mother-in-law. |