Definitions
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- noun A group
dance performed in acircle , in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them all about.
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Examples
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Nobody wanted to eat, nobody wanted to do the hokey-pokey.
Margaret Cho: When I Think of November Margaret Cho 2011
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Nobody wanted to eat, nobody wanted to do the hokey-pokey.
Margaret Cho: When I Think of November Margaret Cho 2011
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He limps around, bouncing, kicking, giving it a bit of a hokey-pokey shake here and there.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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Nobody wanted to eat, nobody wanted to do the hokey-pokey.
Margaret Cho: When I Think of November Margaret Cho 2011
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I've led a hokey-pokey circle around City Hall in protest of New York's dance laws, attended a death metal festival dressed as a member of the Christian hair metal band, Stryper, and lay in a hospital bed on death's door because of lack of health insurance.
Rev Jen: Why 'Elf Girl' is Extremely Important Rev Jen 2011
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He limps around, bouncing, kicking, giving it a bit of a hokey-pokey shake here and there.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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Let Andrea Mitchell make fun of her hokey-pokey ways – it just endears her to that crowd ever more.
Matthew Yglesias » 71 Percent of Americans, Including 52 Percent of Republicans Are Liberal Elitists 2010
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Let Andrea Mitchell make fun of her hokey-pokey ways – it just endears her to that crowd ever more.
Matthew Yglesias » 71 Percent of Americans, Including 52 Percent of Republicans Are Liberal Elitists 2010
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He limps around, bouncing, kicking, giving it a bit of a hokey-pokey shake here and there.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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I've led a hokey-pokey circle around City Hall in protest of New York's dance laws, attended a death metal festival dressed as a member of the Christian hair metal band, Stryper, and lay in a hospital bed on death's door because of lack of health insurance.
Rev Jen: Why 'Elf Girl' is Extremely Important Rev Jen 2011
hernesheir commented on the word hokey-pokey
According to Wikipedia, hokey cokey, okey cokey, hokey pokey, hokey tokey, or cokey cokey are variations on a name for a participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure well-known in English-speaking countries.
April 25, 2010