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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: probably blend of hocus-pocus and bunkum Date: 1908 1. a device used (as by showmen) to evoke a desired audience response 2. pretentious nonsense ; bunkum

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. esp. US sl. 1 sentimental, popular, sensational, or unreal situations, dialogue, etc., in a film or play etc. 2 bunkum; rubbish. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as hokum, you think it is nonsense. (INFORMAL) The book is enjoyable hokum. = nonsense

Moby Thesaurus

acting, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, business, characterization, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gag, gammon, gas, guff, gup, ham, hammy acting, hogwash, hoke, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, impersonation, jazz, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, moonshine, mummery, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, piffle, playacting, playing, poppycock, portrayal, projection, representation, rot, scat, shit, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role, tommyrot, tripe, wind