hokum

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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. For other uses, 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 innuendos. 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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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