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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Slang Trifling; nearly valueless.
  2. adj. Slang Ludicrous; nonsensical: gave me a cockamamie reason for not going.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. foolish, silly
  2. adj. trifling

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. ludicrous, foolish

Etymologies

  1. Probably alteration of decalcomania.

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