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hooey
noun- nonsense US, 1912
- Maybe this brother-and-sister stuff was just hooey, just like everything else. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 19, 1947
- If Duffy wants a seven, he pulls the ace from this side, the six from the other, and holds ’em for a minute, doing some player hooey to stall long enough for the gas to warm up and turn solid. — Stephen Cannell, King Con, p. 138, 1997
- a rope wrapped around three feet of an animal, secured with a half hitch CANADA
- When you watch the calf-roping at the rodeo you watch the cowboy rope and throw the calf, and then secure it with a hooey. — Chris Thain, Cold as a Bay Street Banker’s Heart, p. 86, 1987
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