hocus-pocus 的 3 个定义
- a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
- a juggler's trick; sleight of hand.
- trickery; deception.
- unnecessarily mysterious or elaborate activity or talk to cover up a deception, magnify a simple purpose, etc.
ho·cus-po·cused, ho·cus-po·cus·ing or ho·cus-po·cussed, ho·cus-po·cus·sing.
- to play tricks on or with.
ho·cus-po·cused, ho·cus-po·cus·ing or ho·cus-po·cussed, ho·cus-po·cus·sing.
- to perform tricks; practice trickery or deception.
hocus-pocus 近义词
sleight of hand
hocus-pocus 的近义词 39 个
- abracadabra
- artifice
- cant
- chant
- charm
- cheating
- chicanery
- conjuring
- deceit
- deception
- delusion
- flimflam
- fraud
- gibberish
- hoax
- humbug
- imposture
- incantation
- jargon
- juggling
- legerdemain
- magic
- mummery
- mystification
- nonsense
- occultism
- rigmarole
- spell
- swindle
- trick
- trickery
- gobbledegook
- hocus
- magic words
- monkey business
- mumbo jumbo
- open sesame
- sleight of hand
- smoke and mirrors
hocus-pocus 的反义词 11 个
更多hocus-pocus例句
- So how did 18-year-old Jason Marsden get cast as the voice of a talking cat in Hocus Pocus?
- Finally, in the spirit of Hocus Pocus, what are your Halloween plans this year?
- First negatively, it has not been done by any artificial means or legislative hocus-pocus (applause).
- It is hocus-pocus, a sort of social magic formula like the "mutabor" in the Arabian Nights; it is an Aladdins-lamp philosophy.
- He complains that Gautier is lacking in a concern about supernatural hocus-pocus and that Flaubert is lacking.
- "There's some hocus-pocus about this," whispered Trask, as he and Locke moved forward for a private talk.
- But love was beginning its usual hocus-pocus with character and turning a tired business man into a restless swain.