บังหน้า

serve as a front for, provide cover for

verb Rare #16,195

serve as a front for, provide cover for Often used for a person or story that conceals someone’s real purpose.

TH: เขาใช้ร้านนี้บังหน้าเพื่อซ่อนธุรกิจจริง

EN: He used this shop as a front to hide his real business.

Kat has read enough detective novels to know she should have a cover story.

Chris is her “front man”—a term I just learned from Keith the other day.

But I can make up a cover story.

All of it was just a cover story Vincent came up with.