Murphy (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural mur·phies.
  1. an Irish or white potato.
  2. any of various confidence games in which a victim is left with a sealed envelope supposedly containing money, but which contains only newspaper or scrap paper cut to the same size as paper money.
verb (used with object), mur·phied, mur·phy·ing.
  1. to victimize or dupe in such a manner.
noun
  1. U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
  2. U.S. thoroughbred racehorse jockey.
  3. U.S. physician: Nobel Prize in medicine 1934.
noun plural -phies
  1. a dialect or informal word for potato
noun
  1. Alex. born 1939, English rugby league player and coach; scored 16 tries in 27 test matches for Great Britain (1958–71)
  2. Eddie, full name Edward Regan Murphy . born 1951, US film actor and comedian. His films include 48 Hours (1982), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Coming to America (1988), Dr Dolittle (1998), and, as a voice artist, the Shrek series of animated films (2001–10)
  3. William Parry. 1892–1987, US physician: with G. R. Minot, he discovered the liver treatment for anaemia and they shared, with G. H. Whipple, the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1934
Murphy (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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