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In some senses, murphy is marked as slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
name
A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha
After a long talk between these two, and a little broken English from the Frenchmen, our visitors took leave; but Father Murphy had hardly gone a dozen rods when back he came, inquiring whether we were in want of anything.
A Granite Bay home previously owned by actor and comedian Eddie Murphy is back on the market for $12 million.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London.
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A number of places in the United States:
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noun
Ellipsis of Murphy game (“type of confidence trick”).
verb
To swindle by means of the Murphy game confidence trick.