[
US
/ˌkɔkəˈmeɪmi/
]
[ UK /kˈɒkɐmˌæmi/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒkɐmˌæmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
informal term for ridiculous and implausible
he gave me a cockamamie reason for not going
How To Use cockamamie In A Sentence
- First thing we gotta do is concoct some kind of cockamamie contraption that'll get us out of this mess.
- He may practice cockamamie politics, but he's a very talented actor and director, and I'm proud of him for finally winning.
- Well, scrap that cockamamie, and sales-slumping, idea.
- Pace Webster's Third [XV,3], but including the word cockamamie in a Yiddish lexicon is questionable, as is the definition given. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
- Then what makes you think this cockamamie plan is going to work?
- He has espoused some cockamamie theories about the secret society.
- There is this crazy cockamamie story that went around that we had signed some pact.
- And even though I reject Amiri Baraka's hairbrained, "truther" talk about 9/11, the fact that he was speaking from the perch of the poet who was serving in a public role as poet laureate of New Jersey lent obvious weight to his cockamamie nonsense. Why Aren't Poets More Politically Active?
- If you expect me to fall for that cockamamie story that you just told, you've clearly lost your mind!
- Patrick Leahy of Vermont called a "cockamamie" plan to consider building a fence or wall along the U.S. Paranoia