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1. An item that is not genuine.
2. A person that does not have genuine intentions.
3. no-getter. See definition after the link.
The no-getter is so phoney, he acts one way around his friends, then is so mean to his real family.

Tom bought a phoney Playstation 2.

The high-society woman is a phoney, as she really grew up in a trailer park.
phoney by darkstar67 May 3, 2005
Someone who is on their phone while you are talking to them and they pretend to be apart of the conversation
Person 1" hey who's your favorite football player?"
Phoney "uh huh"
Phoney by Winterϟϟ May 27, 2018
A complimentary term, that can only be said in a certain way for it to work. But most people can't pull it off.
Originated by a character from the television show "Seinfeld"
"Did you see that Michael Jordan? He's so phoney!"
phoney by darkabove April 30, 2005
During Season 3 of Seinfeld in the episode entitled, "The Parking Space", Kramer's friend tells Kramer that Jerry Seinfeld is phoney. To cover up his mistake, he confronts Jerry by saying that phoney is like cool, such as the analogy bad:cool.
"Man that Michael Jordan is so phoney!"
phoney by Jeff Smith January 9, 2005
An intentional misspelling of "Phony" meant as a derogatory term for people who check their phones too much.
Dude quit being such a phoney.
Phoney by jebeebles October 7, 2012
It's like when someone plays an instrument really bad, we say he's phoney.
*some guy's playing the piano*
- Man, he's so damn phoney >:(
phoney by Kilgayne February 12, 2005