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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jiggery-pokery
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But according to these figures there's been some jiggery-pokery with the room rates.
▪ This kind of jiggery-pokery does them a disservice.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jiggery-pokery

jiggery-pokery \jiggery-pokery\ n. A verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of a person in some way.

Syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, skulduggery, skullduggery.

Wiktionary
jiggery-pokery

n. 1 trickery or misrepresentation. 2 manipulation. 3 (label en euphemism) sexual intercourse.

WordNet
jiggery-pokery

n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, skulduggery, skullduggery]

Usage examples of "jiggery-pokery".

If the woman did not stop mirroring her this way, she was going to start thinking there was more to this jiggery-pokery with the Power than she had been told.

They don't mind winking at a bit of jiggery-pokery when a fellow's single, but once he's mar­ried, he daren't let 'em find out about it, or they'll cut him.