Meaning & use
hooey
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Nonsense; foolish or untrue talk.
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He dismissed the rumor as a bunch of hooey.
That excuse sounds like pure hooey to me.
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Informal American slang, mostly used in casual speech to dismiss something as silly or untrue.
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