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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abracadabra, artifice, cheat, chicanery, con game, conjuring, deceit, deception, duplicity, flimflam, gibberish, hanky-panky, hoax, humbug, incantation, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, mischief, mumbo-jumbo, nonsense, prestidigitation, rigmarole, sleight of hand, swindle, trick, trickery
Dictionary Results for hocus-pocus:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
hocus-pocus
    n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
         in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness,
         hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery,
         skullduggery]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hocus-pocus \Ho"cus-po"cus\, v. t.
   To cheat. [Colloq.] --L'Estrange.
   [1913 Webster]
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hocus-pocus \Ho"cus-po"cus\, n. [Prob. invented by jugglers in
   imitation of Latin. Cf. Hoax, Hocus.]
   1. A term used by magicians or conjurers in pretended
      incantations.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A juggler or trickster. [Archaic] --Sir T. Herbert.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. A magician's trick; a cheat; nonsense. --Hudibras.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. Obfuscating talk or elaborate but meaningless activity
      intended to hide a deception or to obscure what is
      actually happening; verbal misrepresentation intended to
      take advantage of you in some way.

   Syn: trickery, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery,
        skulduggery, skullduggery.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
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