rigmarole
(noun)
noun
1. a set of confused and meaningless statements
Similar word(s): rigamarole
Definition categories: communication, bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
2. a long and complicated and confusing procedure
- all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time
Similar word(s): rigamarole
Definition categories: act, procedure, process
Sentences with rigmarole as a noun:
- Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
- 1895 — In comes Mitaiele to Lloyd, and told some rigmarole about Paatalise (the steward's name) wanting to go and see his family in the bush. — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Valima Letters, ch XIX