Fairground stall when the bunting still flaps. Without end sheds the final R of duper, leaving DUPE. Hoax is the trick sense — to dupe the crowd. Soft candyfloss and a bent coin cloak the dock as showman's aside rather than a labelled deletion of the agent noun.
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