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MALARKEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does malarkey mean?
• MALARKEY (noun)
The noun MALARKEY has 1 sense:
1. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
Familiarity information: MALARKEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
idle words; jazz; malarkey; malarky; nothingness; wind
Context example:
don't give me any of that jazz
Hypernyms ("malarkey" is a kind of...):
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