garbley gook

A form of gobbledygook — Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.

Meanings

noungarbley gook (uncountable)
  1. alternativeslanguncountableAlternative form of gobbledygook (“communication that is garbled; language messed up and hard to understand”).

    "It looks like garbley gook." Brent remarked. "No, it's code. I haven'ta clue what it means but its computer code alright." Travis deduced.

    2007, L. J. Newlin, Trail Mix, page 158
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