Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
He was arrested for trying to cash a bogus check at the bank.
Undesirable or harmful.
What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too! Get it?
Incorrect, useless, or broken.
A liquor made of rum and molasses.
BOGUS. A liquor made of rum and molasses.
Counterfeit money.
“Ahem—it is the opinion of the court that the prisoner has been making bogus; so we must put him in the jug until Superior Court.[…]”
A surname.
First attested as an underworld term for an apparatus for creating counterfeit coins, then the coins themselves. Later, the word was applied to anything of poor quality. The newest use to mean useless...
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