/boh"geuhs/ , adj.
1. not genuine; counterfeit; spurious; sham.
n.
2. Print. , Journalism. matter set, by union requirement, by a compositor and later discarded, duplicating the text of an advertisement for which a plate has been supplied or type set by another publisher.
[ 1825-30, Amer.; orig. an apparatus for coining false money; perh. akin to BOGY 1 ]
Syn. 1. fraudulent, pseudo, fake, phony.