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bills of goods

bills of goods is the plural of bill of goods.

Meaning of bill of goods

Noun

bill of goods (plural bills of goods)

  1. A list of items purchased or offered for sale.
    • Near-synonym: bill of sale
    Synonyms:
    bill of sale
  2. (metonymically) The items themselves, as a collection or set.
    • "This morning," he said, "I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars, and sent him to Boston to pay for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street."1884, Horatio Alger, chapter 18, in Do and Dare
  3. (idiomatic) A set of misleading or deceptive claims.
    • Near-synonyms: misinformation, disinformation, bullshit; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

Questions about bills of goods

What is bills of goods the plural of?
Bills of goods is the plural of bill of goods.

Words near bills of goods in the dictionary

  1. bills of costs
  2. bills of credit
  3. bills of entry
  4. bills of exchange
  5. bills of fare
  6. bills of goods
  7. bills of health
  8. bills of lading
  9. bills of material
  10. bills of materials
  11. bills of mortality

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