HyperDic: hocus-pocus

English > 1 sense of the word hocus-pocus:
NOUNcommunicationhocus-pocus, trickery, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggeryverbal / verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
English > hocus-pocus: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
Meaningverbal / verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
Synonymstrickery, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
Broadermisrepresentation, deceit, deceptionA misleading falsehood
Spanishcachondeo, mistificación, tejemaneje, trampa, trapicheo
Catalanenredada, mistificació, parany, trampa

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