hokum

Plural: hokums

Noun

• Nonsense or claptrap, especially in entertainment.
• a message that seems to convey no meaning
• (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.
• (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc.
• A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material.
• A genre of blues song or music, often characterized by sexual innuendos or satire.

Examples

• He dismissed his opponent’s complaints about lucky draws as pure HOKUM.

Synonyms

bunk, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad