Meaning of Hooey | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).
   slang, uncountable
2. A hog-tie performed in a rodeo show.
   slang

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Examples

“I heard his speech. It sounded like a whole lot of hooey to me.”

“For many doctors, meditation resides in the realm of New Age hooey—okay for Indian yogis and students of Eastern religion, but not suitable for scientific study.”

“Sheldon Cooper: I did, but I think I've kind of outgrown Star Trek. You know, stock characters, ludicrous plots, beam me up. What a load of hooey.”

“Dingo: Haha! Sounds like you're scared of ghosts. You know there's no such thing, right?! / Yonny: Well, actually, science has yet to DISprove the existence of ghosts. / Dingo: What? Yon, you're into all this ghost hooey? Really?!”

““Jaws 2, 3 and 4, if I had made them, would still have failed,” Spielberg told me, “because of the improbability of a shark that large reoccurring thrice. The audience will accept so much until it becomes hooey.””

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