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bill of goods

Other forms: bills of goods

Definitions of bill of goods
  1. noun
    a consignment of merchandise
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    type of:
    bill
    a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
  2. noun
    communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable
    “they tried to sell me a bill of goods about a secondhand car”
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    type of:
    deceit, deception, misrepresentation
    a misleading falsehood
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