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ho·cus  (hks)
tr.v. ho·cused or ho·cussed, ho·cus·ing or ho·cus·sing, ho·cus·es or ho·cus·ses
1. To fool or deceive; hoax.
2. To infuse (food or drink) with a drug.
[Short for hocus-pocus.]
hocus [ˈhəʊkəs]
vb -cuses, -cusing, -cused, -cuses -cussing, -cussed (tr) Now rare
1. to take in; trick
2. to stupefy, esp with a drug
3. to add a drug to (a drink)


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This touch and go young Barnacle had 'got up' the Department in a private secretaryship, that he might be ready for any little bit of fat that came to hand; and he fully understood the Department to be a politico-diplomatic hocus pocus piece of machinery for the assistance of the nobs in keeping off the snobs.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
The night afore the last day o' the last election here, the opposite party bribed the barmaid at the Town Arms, to hocus the brandy-and-water of fourteen unpolled electors as was a-stoppin' in the house.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
But I object to pretended secret societies and hocus pocus, and would not.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
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