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Hocus-pocus   Listen
verb
Hocus-pocus  v. t.  To cheat. (Colloq.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Hocus-pocus" Quotes from Famous Books



... did he show the slightest fear of us or of anything, but he was unwearied in his efforts to regain his freedom. After a few days we put a strap upon his neck and kept him tethered by a chain. But in the night, by dint of some hocus-pocus, he got the chain unsnapped and made off, and he is now, I trust, a patriarch of his ...
— Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers • John Burroughs


Words linked to "Hocus-pocus" :   deception, skullduggery, misrepresentation, jiggery-pokery, trickery, slickness, deceit


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