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- noun US A group
dance performed in acircle , in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.
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Examples
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SAN DIEGO On a sunny August afternoon, about 3,000 people danced the hokeypokey inside the San Diego Convention Center.
Mentors, free or paid, can bring a lot to your business 2009
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That is a wonderful hokeypokey that we go through every election year.
Under the Dome: A conversation with Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers 2010
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When stuck between India Uncut and Bombay Addict, one, erm, seems to be doing, ah, um, the hokeypokey or summat.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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"More hokeypokey," thought the New York plastic surgeon.
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February 23, 2008 at 6:34 pm mm da hokeypokey aicekrim- dey haz eet in new zehland. it is velly nomnomnomzzz.
rockstah kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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She claims she and Major would whisper like conspirators in the chambers of the House of Commons, conversing in code ( "Could we have a word after the vote tonight?") before sneaking out for a bout of hokeypokey at her flat.
James Wolcott: Why Are British Sex Scandals So Much Better than Ours? Wolcott, James 2007
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Free of her pack, Joan stood and shook each of her parts — feet, legs, hands, arms, trunk — like she was doing the hokeypokey.
Blood Lure Barr, Nevada 2001
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To visit, Family … afterall, that's what's whatitall about. now I'm gonna to the hokeypokey. .and keep all my toes crossed in the hopes that I win that camera!!!!!!!
PW FULL RSS FEED 2009
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At this point, it looks like I’ll get to do the dragon hokeypokey with Alistair but not with Morrigan because just I can’t seem to please her I know… we’re just so hard to please.
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We went from “Tic Toe Polka” to “Setting Sun” to the one’s we’d practiced from Mrs. Dranka’s book of novelty tunes: the hokeypokey, the chicken dance, the bunny hop.
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996
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