not as crazy and tough as one professes or appears to be; anybody can call themselves a "bad ass," but you have to be able to back it up.
by weave March 20, 2003
Did you see Lance hitting on all those women when he was drunk?! His husband would be pissed! That guy is such an I heart baloney phony!
by BigJD3 May 19, 2023
A noob/scrub that has tryhard tendencies (attempting to be the best, etc.), but has noob behaviors and tactics (dying alot, wearing noob outifts, etc.) and end up failing due to these mix of traits
John Boy: Hey Tim, the dude in all black is trying to snipe me in the tower with a Dragonov.
Tim: Oh shit, is he a legit player?
John Boy: Nah I just killed him earlier, he is a Phony Tryhard.
Tim: Oh shit, is he a legit player?
John Boy: Nah I just killed him earlier, he is a Phony Tryhard.
by yng.jar June 22, 2018
Everyone has a phony family member that always thinks they are on reality TV (which is the worst name for the kind of TV programming that it describes, as even TV shows and movies are closer to reality than reality TV, even if it's unscripted it's full of fake people and there is nothing to make up for or redeem it from that). The kind of family member that always laughs at everything and everyone, thinks of everything and everyone as hilarious, you always see a family member like that on instagram or one of those other sites with another video of them doing something that wasn't even interesting when they were a kid doing it (such as them with a hula hoop, big fuckin deal) but they think it makes them the most colorful and interesting person in the world (something they must have got from their mother telling them the home videos of them as a kid were awesome when nobody else would tell them that if they ever watched them).
by The Original Agahnim January 10, 2022
by Shayna16 April 13, 2019