hokum
IPA: hˈoʊkʌm
noun
- (countable, uncountable, informal) (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.
- (countable, uncountable, informal) (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc.
- (countable, informal) A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of blues song or music, often characterized by sexual innuendos or satire.
Advertisement
Examples of "hokum" in Sentences
- That's a lot of newspaper hokum....
- The Minstrel Show Origins of Hokum.
- He is against hokum in parapsychology.
- Hokum is a song type in American blues music.
- It was pure hokum and absolutely nothing else.
- I'm trying to work out if this is hokum or not.
- In the rural south in particular, hokum held on.
- I've tried most antacids on the market and all that hokum.
- Homeopathy is real even if the principles of homeopathy are hokum.
- Pure hokum and amateur, unsustantiated, opinion as confirmed below.
Advertisement
Advertisement