noun
definition
Trickery or nonsense.
example
What kind of hocus-pocus is this?
definition
A conjurer.
definition
A conjurer's trick.
verb
definition
To cheat.
interjection
definition
A phrase used as a magical incantation to bring about some change.
Examples of hocus-pocus in a Sentence
My husband thinks its all hocus pocus and takes a negative angle when asking questions about auras.
Starred with Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus in 1992.
At this point, Hocus Pocus arrives with Santa Claus, but it appears to be too late.
Though all of these claims may read as a bit of hocus-pocus for some naysayers, others are quite sold on the shoes' ability to make a major difference.
The means, however, which Price proposed for the extinction of the debt are described by Lord Overstone 1 as " a sort of hocus-pocus machinery," supposed to work " without loss to any one," and consequently unsound.