Crossword clues for hocus
hocus
- Magical start
- Half of a rhyming incantation
- First word in magic?
- A bit of magic?
- Start of an old-fashioned magician's phrase
- Start of a magic phrase
- Spell's first word
- Professor Hinkle's rabbit in "Frosty the Snowman," familiarly
- Half of a magician's rhyme
- Focus "___ Pocus"
- First word from a magician
- Enon "___ Pocus"
- Conjurer's first word?
- "Pocus" go-with
- "___ Pocus" (rhyming movie title)
- "___ Pocus" (1993 Bette Midler movie)
- "___ pocus"
- "___ pocus!" (magician's phrase)
- Start of a conjurer's phrase
- ___-pocus
- Start of a spelling?
- Dupe
- Deceive or drug
- Cheat
- Cheat or stupefy
- Deceive; stupefy with drugs or drink
- Magical opening
- Magician's word
- Magic word
- Start of a spell
- Start of an incantation
- Magician's opening
- Start of a magician's phrase
- Play a trick on
- First word in magic
- Start of a magical incantation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hocus \Ho"cus\, n.
One who cheats or deceives.
--South.Drugged liquor.
Hocus \Ho"cus\, v. t. [See Hocus-pocus.]
To deceive or cheat.
--Halliwell.To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker.
--Dickens.To stupefy with drugged liquor.
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who cheats or deceives. 2 drugged liquor vb. 1 To play a trick on; hoax; cheat. 2 To stupefy with drugged liquor.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "hocus".
Between him and the Austro-Russian force, As second movement in the faceabout From Boulogne shore, with which he has hocussed us?
I think of Hocus Pocus, when Eugene Debs Hartke is fired from his job as a teacher because the right wing gets after him.
The magician covered her figure with a light cloth so that only the form showed, and then, without the usual hocus pocus gestures commonly employed in the levitation trick, she began to rise until she was suspended three feet above the bench.
I was going to speak of the other classification: the various means of hocussing doors and windows so that they can be locked on the inside.
Of the lost state of the dead, from the lurid Mangaian legend, in which infernal deities hocus and destroy the souls of all, to the various submarine and aerial limbos where the dead feast, float idle, or resume the occupations of their life on earth, it would be wearisome to tell.