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(euphemistic) A lie or falsehood.
This first usage has only the literal sense of inaccurate terminology, but it was almost immediately taken up as a euphemism meaning an outright lie.
From Wiktionary
Coined by Winston Churchill campaigning in the 1906 election, and repeated by him in the parliament,
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