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hocus-pocus
noun
- meaningless words used as a formula by conjurers
- a magician's trick or trickery; sleight of hand; legerdemain
- any meaningless action or talk drawing attention away from some deception
- trickery; deception
transitive verb, intransitive verb hocus-pocused or hocus-pocussed, hocus-pocusing or hocus-pocussing
Informal to trick; dupe
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