[Ads-l] Fugazi

[Jonathan Lighter]

CNN, moments ago:

Chris Cuomo: "There's what I call the 'fugazi factor' [in Clinton's
campaign]. The van, [etc.]"

Michaela Periera: "What's 'fugazi'?"

Chris Cuomo: "It means fake. You can look it up."

But don't bother looking in the OED. And not even in HDAS, where the only
sense (starting 1980) is - in the words of one of the citations - "fucked
up in the head."  By 2005, the word was not uncommon.

Rhymes with "crazy."  And 'fake' in the sense of 'theatrical.'

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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