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hocus-pocus

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hocus-pocus/həʊkəsˈpəʊkəs/

▶noun

1 meaningless talk used for trickery.

2 a conjuror's incantation.

– origin C17: from hax pax max Deus adimax, a pseudo-Latin phr. used as a magic formula by conjurors.

'hocus-pocus' also found in these Oxford entries:

hocus - hokey-cokey

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