Usually means: Imitate or pretend to be.
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  1. make like: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. make like: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. make like: Collins English Dictionary
  4. make like: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. make like: Wiktionary
  6. make like: Dictionary.com

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  1. Make Like: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make like)

▸ verb:  (colloquial, chiefly US, with clause) To behave as though.
▸ verb:  (colloquial, chiefly US, with a noun) To behave in the manner of.

Similar:
come, belike, make semblant, pretend, play-act, look like, look, make, like, assimulate, more...

Phrases:
make out like a bandit, make like a tree and leave, They Don't Make Them Like They Used To, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, more...

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Similar:
come, belike, make semblant, pretend, play-act, look like, look, make, like, assimulate, more...

Phrases:
make out like a bandit, make like a tree and leave, They Don't Make Them Like They Used To, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, Make Me Like You, more...



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