informal
: nonsense
What sort of melodramatic hooey is this?—Brock Yates
Pretentious, contrived hooey, purporting to show and tell how all teens have the same—gulp—feelings.—Stephen Schaefer
Allen's opinion is that the figures the bowling establishment touts are, in a word, hooey.—Frank Deford
—often used in phrases like a bunch of hooey and a load of hooeyHere's somebody, surely, who'd never try to sell you a bunch of hooey.—David Gates
… there's only one way to describe it: It's a load of hooey.—The Animals Advocate
As usual, the fight scenes are powerful, but Rocky's total fall from grace … and the street-fight finale are just a lot of Hollywood hooey.—Ed Weiner
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“Hooey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hooey. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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