Usually means: People pretending to be something.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. -phonies, phonies: Merriam-Webster
  2. phonies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. phonies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. phonies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Phonies, phonies: Wordnik
  6. phonies: Wiktionary
  7. phonies: Dictionary.com
  8. phonies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. phonies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phonies: Legal dictionary
  2. phonies: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phonies: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phonies: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phonies: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See phony as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (phony)

adjective:  (informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
noun:  (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
noun:  (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
noun:  (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
verb:  (informal) To fake.
▸ Also see phony


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