Nonsense, lies, or something regarded as ridiculous or untrue; also an alternative spelling of bologna the meat.
Originally from bologna sausage (the meat from Bologna, Italy), but evolved into slang meaning something fake or inferior by the 1920s, as people humorously dismissed the processed meat as 'not real meat.'
The transformation of 'boloney' from a food item to slang for lies is hilarious—it happened because people jokingly called the sausage 'baloney' (inferior), and by the Jazz Age, teenagers were saying 'that's boloney!' meaning 'that's bull'!
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