What is Phony?
1.
Somebody who pretends to be something else. It's like a bad actor.
Jerry: Use it in a sentence.
Mike: Man, that Michael Jordan is so phony. (to Kramer) Why'd you tell him?!?
2.
Holden Caulfield's favorite insult, an old way of saying
"What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
-Holden Caulfield.
Here he expresses how he'd like to stop people from beocming phony as they grow up.
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3.
fake, not real, a lie
Jacob tried to sell me a phony Rolex watch.
Marcus told a phony story about how he stole a Caddilac Escalade.
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4.
A person that's all bark and no bite.
He's such a phony, he says he's a pyro but he's actually scared of fire.
5.
something that isnt what it actually is, or someone pretending to be someone they are not.
Ryan Smith is a phony.
6.
Mark David Chapman's reason for killing John Lennon
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."
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7.
1. false
2. someone or something false
This Drivers licence is Phony.
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