See Also: Murphy bed(tourism)
Murphy's law(dictionary)
murphy(2)(dictionary)
murphy(1)(dictionary)
Murphy(dictionary)
Murphy bed(dictionary)
Murphy Oil(finance)
Murphy - Bowling(gambling)
Murphy, Frank(encyclopedia)
Murphy's button(medicine)

murphy(1) (iou)



murphy noun2. Also (esp. in senses 2, 3) Murphy. E19.
[Murphy, an Irish surname.]
A potato. slang. E19.
More fully Murphy game. A confidence trick in which the victim is duped by unfulfilled promises of money, sex, etc. US slang. M20.
Murphy's law, any of various aphoristic expressions of the apparent perverseness and unreasonableness of things. Also called Sod's law. joc. M20.