Definitions for bogus

bogus bo·gus

Spelling: [boh-guh s]
IPA: /ˈboʊ gəs/

Bogus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in bogus (bgosu).

Definitions for bogus

noun

  1. Printing, Journalism. matter set, by union requirement, by a compositor and later discarded, duplicating the text of an advertisement for which a plate has been supplied or type set by another publisher.

adjective

  1. not genuine; counterfeit; spurious; sham.

Origin of bogus

1825-30, Americanism; originally an apparatus for coining false money; perhaps akin to bogy1

Examples for bogus

The man, Joshua Kemp, told what police describe as “a bogus story that quickly fell apart.”

What do they do if they find out there are these bogus parts that can come unscrewed?

In all such cases the heraldry should be true, and not of the "bogus" kind.

Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative National Review, called that statistic “bogus.”

She must explain to me how that bogus money came into her possession.

With a nose for bogus facts, Johnson sets out to break the Internet by breaking news.

By some fearful mischance I dropped a real despatch and not the bogus one.

Wall, I must say I like yer looks a heap better nor I did the bogus one!

Save for subsiding bubbles, and the bogus water, there was nothing there.

He opens up about the bogus Midnight Express, Oliver Stone on blow, and his riveting one-man show.

Word Value for bogus
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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