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▸ noun:  (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
▸ noun:  (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
▸ noun:  (countable, slang) A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
▸ noun:  (countable, British) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
▸ noun:  (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
▸ noun:  (US, countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
▸ noun:  (countable, US, African-American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
▸ noun:  (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
▸ noun:  (countable, slang, perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
▸ verb:  (slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
▸ verb:  (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
▸ verb:  (slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.

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