Crossword-Solution: HOCUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Hocus | v. t. | To deceive or cheat. |
| Hocus | v. t. | To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. |
| Hocus | v. t. | To stupefy with drugged liquor. |
| Hocus | n. | One who cheats or deceives. |
| Hocus | n. | Drugged liquor. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| HOCUS | anagram | CHOUS |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HOCUS (5)
The thing (which I have often seen done in the East) is ‘hocus-pocus’ in my opinion, as it is in yours.
There is no hocus-pocus in morality; and even the “sanctimonious ceremony” of marriage leaves the man unchanged.
And another thing, I won't have her thumped about all over the chest, or any hocus-pocus of the sort.
Reid's description of the fire walking itself may not be out of place; it will show that the Japs had nothing new to offer aside from the ritualistic ceremonials with which they camouflaged the hocus-pocus of the performance, which is merely a survival of the ordeal by fire of earlier religions.
The young man, blond and smooth faced, at the other side of the table and facing the light, was Doctor Stevens, a recently graduated pupil of the famous Schulze of Saint Christopher who as much as any other one man is responsible for the rejection of hocus-pocus and the injection of common sense into American medicine.
Quotes with HOCUS (3)
— and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools — guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus — THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Achievement is no hocus-pocus. It's focus, focus!
No, not of course at all — it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, the twenty-first of June, the beginning of summer, they begin to go downhill again, toward winter. You call that ‘of course’; but if one once loses hold of the fact that it is of course, it is quite frightening, you feel like hanging on to something. It seems like a practical joke — that spring begins at the beginning of winter, and autumn at the beginnin…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1972–2023).