Usually means: Nonsense, foolish words or ideas.
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  1. malarkey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. malarkey: Merriam-Webster
  3. malarkey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. malarkey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. malarkey: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Malarkey, malarkey: Wordnik
  8. malarkey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Malarkey, malarkey: Wiktionary
  10. malarkey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. malarkey (malarky): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. malarkey: Dictionary.com
  14. malarkey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Malarkey (board game), Malarkey (disambiguation), Malarkey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Malarkey: Rhymezone
  17. malarkey: FreeDictionary.org
  18. malarkey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Malarkey: The Word Detective
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  21. Malarkey: World Wide Words

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  1. malarkey, malarkey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (originally US, informal) Nonsense; rubbish.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
Malarky, mallarky, nonsense, bollocks, fuckery, meshugaas, spoof, hocus-pocus, malingery, ackamarackus, more...

Types:
nonsense, gibberish, baloney, blather, bunk, claptrap, drivel, flapdoodle, more...

Phrases:
Michael Malarkey, Donald Malarkey, Ryan Ashley Malarkey, more...

Adjectives:
pure, such, old, much, usual, sheer, irish, religious, same, absolute


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Similar:
Malarky, mallarky, nonsense, bollocks, fuckery, meshugaas, spoof, hocus-pocus, malingery, ackamarackus, more...

Types:
nonsense, gibberish, baloney, blather, bunk, claptrap, drivel, flapdoodle, more...

Phrases:
Michael Malarkey, Donald Malarkey, Ryan Ashley Malarkey, more...

Adjectives:
pure, such, old, much, usual, sheer, irish, religious, same, absolute



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