word salad

Noun

word salad (usually uncountable, plural word salads)

1. (usually) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.
   • All of his other verbal offerings were continuous word-salad—a mixture of made-up sounds, syllables, words, and incomplete phrases.2018, Bob Bertolino, PhD, Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 120
2. (usually) Meaningless text generated by a computer.
   • Results will be shown for recognition, prediction, and separation of regular input from word salad (random sequences of words).2003, Bjørnar Tessem, Eighth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence: SCAI'03, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 107
3. (usually) An intentionally nonsensical and voluminous statement.
   • Chris Wallace asked @GovAbbott why he didn't complain about migrant abuse when Trump was President and he launched into word salad, with no real answer.2021, Jeremy Newberger, Twitter