Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hocus-pocus . - noun Ice-cream sold by the pennyworth by street venders.
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Examples
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January 2, 2008 at 7:59 am trying hoky-poky furst tyme hurai for bebbeh kitteh!
i has two ansers. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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"I went to get a hoky-poky at the corner," replied the girl.
The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill
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If her small ladyship's word could be taken for it, in that other life still remembered by her, she had everything, even to hoky-poky ad libitum, to her heart's content, though her testimony framed itself into somewhat more halting and uncertain English.
The Angel of the Tenement George Madden Martin 1901
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"Let's have a hoky-poky penny ice, free, grashus, for nothing."
Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills George Manville Fenn 1870
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The scud all a flyin ', That's his flip only foamin'; When he stirs in the spicin ', -- Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
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Do the hoky-poky, turns yourself around and do the right thing.
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Do the hoky-poky, turns yourself around and do the right thing.
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