Usually means: Nonsense, often used for entertainment.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word hokum:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. hokum: Merriam-Webster
  2. hokum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hokum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hokum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hokum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hokum, hokum: Wordnik
  7. hokum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hokum: Wiktionary
  9. hokum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hokum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hokum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hokum: Dictionary.com
  13. hokum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hokum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hokum (disambiguation), Hokum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. hokum: Rhymezone
  17. hokum: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hokum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hokum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. hokum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hokum, hokum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hokum: The Folk File
  3. hokum: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (countable, uncountable, informal) (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.
▸ noun:  (countable, uncountable, informal) (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc.
▸ noun:  (countable, informal) A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, music) A genre of blues song or music, often characterized by sexual innuendos or satire.

Similar:
hogwash, bunkum, humbug, hogshit, baloney, gumph, junk, blah, flummery, mumbo jumbo, more...

Opposite:
truth, reality, fact, sincerity

Types:
bunk, baloney, codswallop, flapdoodle, piffle, tommyrot, twaddle, humbug, more...

Adjectives:
pure, old, much, such, political, good, sheer, plain, usual, sentimental, theatrical


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Similar:
hogwash, bunkum, humbug, hogshit, baloney, gumph, junk, blah, flummery, mumbo jumbo, more...

Opposite:
truth, reality, fact, sincerity

Types:
bunk, baloney, codswallop, flapdoodle, piffle, tommyrot, twaddle, humbug, more...

Adjectives:
pure, old, much, such, political, good, sheer, plain, usual, sentimental, theatrical



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