hocus-pocus

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] language or behaviour that is nonsense and is intended to hide the truth from people: I still think that horoscopes are a load of hocus-pocus.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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Same word in other sources

hocus-pocusEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary hocus-pocusEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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