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Definitions
To trick, cheat, or deceive.
Word origin
Shortened from hocus-pocus. The verb is from the noun.
Used in a sentence
“1677, Poor Robin’s Visions, London: Arthur Boldero, Eighth Vision, p. 117, […] to contemplate the miseries of a poor Poetick life, or study some well laid plot to Hocus his Landlady into a further credence or belief […]”
“HOCUS. To cheat. Hence the more modern term hoax.”
““Well, I reckon you have lived in the country. I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again […].””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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