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- noun Alternative spelling of
hocus-pocus . - verb colloquial, transitive To
cheat .
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Examples
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What is a modern idea (foreign to the thoughtworld of the early Christians) is that God ONLY works through humans WITHOUT ever using hocuspocus (miracles).
From Herod To Haiti James F. McGrath 2010
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Of course, while implementing fancy Ajax hocuspocus, no-one thought about making user data sacred.
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Of course, while implementing fancy Ajax hocuspocus, no-one thought about making user data sacred.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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The fellow probably thought the whole mind-ray story was hocuspocus, anyway-not a chance in a million of it being true.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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Brother Paul hocuspocus, which he quickly dropped, had merely caught and canalized an abounding energy that would otherwise have flowed aimlessly in a stagnant world.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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The cool-headed William the Third contemptuously refused to lend himself to the hocuspocus; and when his palace was besieged by the usual unsavoury crowd, he ordered them to be turned away with a dole.
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The cool-headed William the Third contemptuously refused to lend himself to the hocuspocus; and when his palace was besieged by the usual unsavoury crowd, he ordered them to be turned away with a dole.
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The "doctor" drew a black case from his pocket, went through some hocuspocus with a small mirror, and within two minutes, though his Spanish was little less excruciating than his
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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The fellow merely gathered the notion that I was but a sorry magician at best, who had my diabolical hocuspocus only imperfectly under control, and he did not entirely succeed in keeping his sneers invisible.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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For were there not a score of Indians waiting outside eager to pay as well for masses, confessions, and all the rest of his own hocuspocus?
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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