snake oil

snake oil

noun

Definition of SNAKE OIL

1

: any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without regard to their medical worth or properties

2

: poppycock, bunkum

First Known Use of SNAKE OIL

1917

Rhymes with SNAKE OIL

coal oil, corn oil, fish oil, fixed oil, free-soil, fuel oil, gas oil, night soil, palm oil, red soil, rose oil, shale oil, sperm oil, subsoil, tung oil, white oil