bill of goods noun3 •A list of items purchased or offered for sale. •A set of misleading or deceptive claims.Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman. — 1956 •The items themselves, as a collection or set."This morning," he said, "I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars, and sent him to Boston to pay for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street." — 1884 formsbills of goods