Hokum Definition

hōkəm
noun
Trite or mawkish sentiment, crude humor, etc. used to get a quick emotional response from an audience.
Webster's New World
Nonsense; humbug; claptrap.
Webster's New World
A stock technique for eliciting a desired response from an audience.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Hokum

Noun

Singular:
hokum
Plural:
hokums

Origin of Hokum

  • Perhaps ho(cus-pocus) (bun)kum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Blend of hocus-pocus and bunkum

    From Wiktionary

Hokum Sentence Examples

  • It was pure theater by a master and you could see it as marvelously sincere and spontaneous or absolute hokum.

  • Of course it is all complete hokum in the best Hollywood sense.

  • I have to admit that it took me some time to cast off this initial belief in such hokum.

  • In early episodes, Deanna Troi's utility was mainly in studying the alien vessel in view on the main screen with a far off look and intoning "I sense a great fear... and sadness..." or similar hokum.

  • Hugely entertaining 50's horror hokum written by a noted science fiction author who also wrote the script for The Time Machine (1960 ).

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Words Starting With

HHOHOK

Words Ending With

MUMKUM

Unscrambles

hokum

Words Starting With H and Ending With M

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