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hooey

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hoo·ey  (h)
n. Slang
Nonsense: "the romantic hooey that always sold women's cosmetics" Jerry Adler.

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hooey
Noun
Slang nonsense [origin unknown]
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Noun1.hooey - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

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This, with all due respect, was a lot of election-year hooey.
But to declare that the drunken, out-of-control man is the true man--or "in vino veritas," as the Latin tag goes--is simplistic hooey.
 
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