Knockoff vs Forgery - What's the difference?
knockoff | forgery |
An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually lower in quality and price than the original.
The act of forging metal into shape.
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The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery —with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
(lb) An invention, creation.
As nouns the difference between knockoff and forgery
is that knockoff is an imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually lower in quality and price than the original while forgery is the act of forging metal into shape.knockoff
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Alternative forms
* knock-off, knock offNoun
(en noun)- It's not a name brand bag, just a cheap knockoff .