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Noun humbug has 3 senses
  1. baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing
    --1 is a kind of nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
  2. humbug, snake oil - communication (writen or spoken) intended to deceive
    --2 is a kind of misrepresentation, deceit, deception
  3. fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
    --3 is a kind of trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
    --3 has particulars: goldbrick; Piltdown man, Piltdown hoax
    Derived form: verb humbug1
,Verb humbug has 1 sense
  1. humbug - trick or deceive
    --1 is one way to     deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
    Derived form: noun humbug3
    Sample sentences:
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    Somebody ----s somebody
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