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Bogue

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1. Suffering from drug withdrawal. An obsolescent term of unknown origin from

the jargon of narcotics addicts.

2a. Worthless, counterfeit. From under world usage.

2b. Unpleasant, insincere. An adolescent term.

2c. Inferior, ersatz. A vogue term among adolescents, it is a shortening, like the two preceding senses, of bogus, itself a key item of fashionable youth slang.

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