Kayfabe

Kayfabe is the portrayal of staged elements within professional wrestling as legitimate or real. Although initially a wrestling term, Kayfabe has also been used to describe any suspension of disbelief or pretense of reality that deliberately blurs the lines between fact and fiction.

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