Definition of hocus-pocus Hocus-pocus
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What does hocus-pocus mean?
WordNet
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| hocus-pocus - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | ||
| trickery, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery | ||
| misrepresentation, deceit, deception a misleading falsehood | ||
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Wiktionary 
- hocus-pocus (Noun)
A specific act of trickery or nonsense.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hocus-pocus
hō′kus-pō′kus, n. a juggler: a juggler's trick.—v.t. Hō′cus, to cheat: to stupefy with drink: to drug:—pr.p. hō′cussing; pa.p. hō′cussed. [The meaningless gibberish of a juggler—no reference to 'hoc est corpus.']
