Meaning & use
Cockamamie
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Informal: ridiculous, implausible, or absurd.
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He came up with some cockamamie excuse for why he missed the deadline.
Nobody believed her cockamamie story about the dog eating her car keys.
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American slang that likely evolved from 'decalcomania,' the 19th-century word for decorative transfer pictures (decals), whose flimsy, gimmicky nature came to suggest something silly or unbelievable.
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