Meanings
- informaluncountableMeaningless activity engaged in just for show; deceptive nonsense.
His beady noggin had visions of floggens as he zeroed in on the new ackamarackus.
2012, Thomas D. Bryson, The Psychotic Preschoolers, →ISBN, page 812 more examples
This story of coal miners (John Wayne and Randolph Scott) who become coal-owners and rivals for the affections of La Dietrich is the purest and oldest ackamarackus.
1947, Emanuel W. Robson, Mary Major Robson, The world is my cinema, page 109Does the radio priest want to make a killing and leave town before his ministrations are revealed as ackamarackus?
2014, Paul Christopher Johnson, Spirited Things, →ISBN, page 136
Origin
Pseudo-Latinism, possibly coined by Damon Runyon.
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