Baloney
noun
A type of sausage that is usually served in sandwiches.
He made a sandwich with lettuce, mustard, and baloney.
Often appears as...
- slice of baloney
- baloney sandwich
noun
Nonsense, something not true or made up.
Don't listen to him, he's full of baloney.
Often appears as...
- full of baloney
- a load of baloney
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A type of sausage that is usually served in sandwiches.
He made a sandwich with lettuce, mustard, and baloney.
Often appears as...
- slice of baloney
- baloney sandwich
noun
Nonsense, something not true or made up.
Don't listen to him, he's full of baloney.
Often appears as...
- full of baloney
- a load of baloney
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3US Food Reference
Baloney refers to a common American deli meat, often seen in lunches.
She packed a baloney and cheese sandwich for her son.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Icon
The word is iconic in American culture, representing simple, inexpensive food.
A baloney sandwich is considered a classic American lunch.
Pro Tip 3/3Confusion Alert
Don't confuse 'baloney' with 'bologna'; the latter is the original term for the sausage.
I enjoy both bologna and baloney, despite the difference in spelling.
Pro Tip 1/3US Food Reference
Baloney refers to a common American deli meat, often seen in lunches.
She packed a baloney and cheese sandwich for her son.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Icon
The word is iconic in American culture, representing simple, inexpensive food.
A baloney sandwich is considered a classic American lunch.
Pro Tip 3/3Confusion Alert
Don't confuse 'baloney' with 'bologna'; the latter is the original term for the sausage.
I enjoy both bologna and baloney, despite the difference in spelling.
Pro Tip 1/3US Food Reference
Baloney refers to a common American deli meat, often seen in lunches.
She packed a baloney and cheese sandwich for her son.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Icon
The word is iconic in American culture, representing simple, inexpensive food.
A baloney sandwich is considered a classic American lunch.
Pro Tip 3/3Confusion Alert
Don't confuse 'baloney' with 'bologna'; the latter is the original term for the sausage.
I enjoy both bologna and baloney, despite the difference in spelling.
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The pattern behind...
to pseudo scientific baloney would be the nice word which you string together a bunch of words that sound good but it does absolutely nothing in this case allowing at trespass points allowing people to go through because your little tracker device said they were okay
Video examples
Leonard Susskind: My...
The truth of the matter is that a Feynman sandwich had a load of ham, but absolutely no baloney. What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense --
Video examples
The pattern behind...
to pseudo scientific baloney would be the nice word which you string together a bunch of words that sound good but it does absolutely nothing in this case allowing at trespass points allowing people to go through because your little tracker device said they were okay
Video examples
Leonard Susskind: My...
The truth of the matter is that a Feynman sandwich had a load of ham, but absolutely no baloney. What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense --
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
George Osborne
British Politician
One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.
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Gary Johnson
American Politician
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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Norman MacCaig
Scottish Poet
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
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Chloe Sevigny
American Actress
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
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Richard Ben Cramer
American Journalist
I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.
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Dave Brat
American Economist
We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.
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Prue Leith
South African Chef
I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.
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Richard Branson
British Businessman
A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.
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Bill Cunningham
American Photographer
Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.
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Al Smith
American Politician
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
Quote examples
George Osborne
British Politician
One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.
Quote examples
Gary Johnson
American Politician
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
Quote examples
Norman MacCaig
Scottish Poet
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
Quote examples
Chloe Sevigny
American Actress
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
Quote examples
Richard Ben Cramer
American Journalist
I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.
Quote examples
Dave Brat
American Economist
We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.
Quote examples
Prue Leith
South African Chef
I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.
Quote examples
Richard Branson
British Businessman
A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.
Quote examples
Bill Cunningham
American Photographer
Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.
Quote examples
Al Smith
American Politician
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
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