SLANG
Calling out nonsense or liesbaloney
Interwar · 1920–1949 · Greatest Generation
Nonsense; a claim treated as obviously untrue.
“That excuse is pure baloney.”
- Region
- United States
- Subculture
- Newspaper vernacular
- Canonical key
- baloney
Learn more
- Dictionary of American Regional English — Harvard University Press
Connected expressions
Predecessor · 2015–2026
capBoth name a claim as untrue, separated by roughly a century.