Usually means: Acting; pretending; not being genuine.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word put-on:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. put-on: Merriam-Webster
  2. put-on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. put-on, put-on: Collins English Dictionary
  5. put-on: Vocabulary.com
  6. put-on: Wordnik
  7. put-on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. put-on: Wiktionary
  9. put-on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. put-on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. put-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. put-on: Dictionary.com
  13. put-on: Rhymezone
  14. put-on: FreeDictionary.org
  15. put-on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. put-on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put-on: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. put-on, put-on: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. put-on: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See put-ons as well.)

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noun:  (informal) A deception, hoax, or practical joke.

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