hocus
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Mentalist and theater artist Vinny DePonto, a bearded, soft-spoken man with gentle eyes, doesn’t want to bamboozle us with hocus pocus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
“What he did for those 20 hours is hocus pocus,” Richards said in urging jurors to reject consideration of the image.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
“Dew manipulated the slides. The one clue we couldn’t figure out was the placard, but they played hocus pocus with the placard. We were given something that had been altered.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2017
It knows it’s always being upstaged by the hocus pocus of its own medium.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2016
He exhorted, he interpreted dreams, he warned, he performed the complicated hocus pocus that brought luck or averted calamity.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
He is Moore hocused for the American market.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
Realizing this almost gave my mind stage fright, but I was too fagged to be hocused by self-consciousness.
From The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
It must have been working as sweet and steady as ever, all the time it was Inverted, except that, being inside out, it had hocused the direction finders.
From The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
She went down at the distance like a filly that's been hocussed.
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Sir Max Pemberton
"But you see we are not quite such fools as we look; and we have heard of such a thing, in our time, as hocussed wine."
From A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins
The horses he had "nobbled," the jockeys "squared," the owners "hocussed," were legion.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
These rascals had given him hocussed rum, and had got him away, probably tied to one of the horses.
From The Missing Link by Edward Dyson
Ill-lodged, ill-fed, ill-used, hocussed, entrapped, anticipated, cleaned out.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
There is no chance of hocussing a horse, or laming him, or bribing a stable boy, or squaring a jockey.
From Hard Pressed by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
"The operation—combining equal parts of hocussing, overcharging, and direct robbery—and facetiously christened by bush landlords `lambing down.'"
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
The Doctor espoused the moral hocussing system, and Feargus took up the bludgeon for physical force.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various
Then he became absorbed in steering, and sternly rejected all further consideration of his gift; he would have neither hand nor part in hocussing French agriculturalists posing as mariners.
From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson
The fortune-tellers have been consulted about them; dreamers have dreamed the winners; and many an underhand attempt, sometimes including the hocussing of men or horses, has been made to corrupt the sport.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
