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• n  verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• With Don Durdan, a left-handed right halfback, and Bob Dethman, a right-handed left halfback, carrying out clever hocus-pocus despite a drizzling rain, they fooled the Devils .
• State insurance commissioner is in ordinary times a job much like the job of state bank commissioner: super-auditor to see that no one plays hocus-pocus with money that the public .
• By the end of book one the author's parents are "lost" amid the many dead-end, hocus-pocus cures, Florence the younger sister has attempted suicide, and the author has locked .

• trickery
• slickness
• hanky panky
• jiggery-pokery
• skulduggery
• skullduggery

News & Articles

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• The magic of economic impact
  There's a lot of hocus-pocus when it comes to economic impact studies.
  July 9, 2013 - Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum

Quotes

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• Mike Tomlin in Vancouver Sun
  I personally don't subscribe to that hocus-pocus,Tomlin said. "What happened in the other two games will have no bearing on the outcome of this game."