Usually means: Not genuine; deceitfully imitative; fake.
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  1. phoney: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. phoney: Merriam-Webster
  3. phoney: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. phoney: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. phoney: Collins English Dictionary
  6. phoney: Vocabulary.com
  7. Phoney, phoney: Wordnik
  8. phoney: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. phoney: Wiktionary
  10. phoney: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. phoney: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. phoney: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. phoney: Dictionary.com
  14. phoney: Rhymezone
  15. phoney: FreeDictionary.org
  16. phoney: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. phoney: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. phoney: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phoney: Legal dictionary
  2. phoney: Financial dictionary

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  1. phoney: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phoney: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phoney, phoney, phoney, phoney: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Phoney: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See phoneying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (chiefly British) Alternative form of phony [(informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.]
noun:  Alternative form of phony [(informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.]
verb:  Alternative form of phony [(informal) To fake.]

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