bafflegab

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• bafflegab — [“baef lgaeb] n. confusing jargon. □ Don’t throw that bafflegab at me. Use English. □ Watch out for the bafflegab they use to try to sell that stuff …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• bafflegab — bafflegabber, n. /baf euhl gab /, n. Slang. confusing or generally unintelligible jargon; gobbledegook: an insurance policy written in bafflegab impenetrable to a lay person. [1950 55; BAFFLE + GAB1] * * * …   Universalium

• bafflegab — Meaningless talk, often meant to impress the ignorant or conceal the truth. His sales pitch was pure bafflegab …   Dictionary of american slang

• bafflegab — Meaningless talk, often meant to impress the ignorant or conceal the truth. His sales pitch was pure bafflegab …   Dictionary of american slang

• bafflegab — confusing statements, jargon, political language    There was a lot of bafflegab in the speech, a lot of nonsense …   English idioms

• bafflegab — noun Date: 1952 gobbledygook …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• bafflegab — noun Language whose purpose is to obscure, confuse, or mislead …   Wiktionary

• bafflegab — n. (Slang) gobbledegook; nonsense …   English contemporary dictionary

• bafflegab — [ baf(ə)lgab] noun N. Amer. informal incomprehensible or pretentious jargon …   English new terms dictionary

• bafflegab — ¦ ̷ ̷  ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: baffle (II) + gab (III) : gobbledygook …   Useful english dictionary

• Great Oil Sniffer Hoax — In 1979 Elf Aquitaine, the large French oil company, supported development of a new gravity wave based oil detection system. After spending millions it was revealed to be a scam. Elf lost over $150 million in what is now known as The Great Oil… …   Wikipedia