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hocus-pocus Definition


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hocus-pocus
noun
    colloq:
    1. The skill of trickery or deception.
      Thesaurus: chicanery, hoax, trickery, sleight of hand, deception, artifice, sham, dodge, subterfuge.
    2. A conjurer's chant while performing a magic trick.
Etymology: 17c: sham Latin, once believed to be a corruption of hoc est corpus this is my body, Christ's words spoken in the communion service at the consecration of the bread.



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