bogus

adjective · nounA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more bogus

Superlative

most bogus

1.
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
He was arrested for trying to cash a bogus check at the bank.
Đồng nghĩa: phony, artificial, bad, bogus, bollocks, concocted, counterfeit, ersatz, fabricated, false, falsified, fake, faux, feigned, forged, fraudulent, illegitimate, ingenuine, mock, phoney, phony-baloney, phony, phony as a three-dollar bill, pseudo, put-up, said to be, sham, spurious, synthetic, unauthentic, unreal, trumped-up
2.
(slang)Undesirable or harmful.
3.
(slang)(computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
4.
(philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
Đồng nghĩa: illegal
5.
Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
bogus laws

Danh từ

noun

1.
(US, dialectal, uncountable)(US, dialect) A liquor made of rum and molasses.
2.
(US, archaic, dialectal, uncountable)(US, dialect, archaic) Counterfeit money.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

First attested as an underworld term for an apparatus for creating counterfeit coins, then the coins themselves. Later, the word was applied to anything of poor quality. The newest use to mean useless is probably from the slang of computer hackers.