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hokum
n. nonsense; cheap humor, melodrama, excessive sentimentality (in a play or drama)


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Hokum
This article refers to a particular song type of American blues music, and a comedic style prevalent in blues and country music. For other use, see hokum (disambiguation) Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music - a humorous song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make sexual innuendoes. This trope goes back to early blues recordings and is seen from time to time in modern American blues and blues-rock.
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hokum
Noun
1. a message that seems to convey no meaning
(synonym) nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness
(hypernym) message, content, subject matter, substance
(hyponym) absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness


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hokum
Synonyms and related words:
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
  

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hokum
hokum /'houkəm/
danh từ kịch bản rẻ tiền (cốt chỉ để phục vụ cho những người không biết phê phán) lời nói ngớ ngẩn vô nghĩa
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