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hokey-pokey

[hoh-kee-poh-kee] / ˈhoʊ kiˈpoʊ ki /




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After a couple rounds of the hokey-pokey in their dance space, I knew I just had the best date ever.

From Los Angeles Times

In the United Kingdom—where its long, strange history begins—the hokey-pokey is known as the hokey-kokey.

From The New Yorker

Whether the lyrical theme is love, rage, jealousy, sorrow, humility, a damaged political system or how to do the hokey-pokey, lyrics arrive bundled with melody and rhythm, and the result is a sublime and potent mnemonic device.

From Los Angeles Times

Unschooled, synapse-challenged, her audience nevertheless could tell the difference; they knew the distinction “between Beethoven and the Hokey-Pokey.”

From Washington Post

The DUP's critics lampooned the manoeuvre as "hokey-pokey" politics.

From BBC