Hokum (disambiguation)
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The term hokum is most readily recognizable in the modern United States as a euphemism for "bullshit" (ex. "That's a lot of hokum"). "Hokum" is also used as another term for kitsch. Compare also the common misuse of the word "hokum" interchangeably with the slang expression "hokey", meaning mawkish, maudlin or fake, as in a hoax. A commonly accepted derivation is that "hokum" is a compound of "hooey" meaning senseless talk and "bunkum" meaning nonsense.
It is also associated, as the NATO code name for it, with the Kamov Ka-50 Russian military attack helicopter.
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