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hokey-pokey

/hoh-kee-poh-kee/US // ˈhoʊ kiˈpoʊ ki //UK // (ˌhəʊkɪˈpəʊkɪ) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : hocus-pocus; trickery.
    • : Often Hokey-Pokey . a dance performed in a circle, or a song describing the simple movements of the dance.
    • : ice cream as formerly sold by street vendors.
    • : New Zealand. a toffee-flavored candy or ice cream popular in New Zealand.
  1. 1

    Trademark.

    • : Hokey-Pokey. a brand of white chocolate ice cream with honeycomb and caramel.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inhanky-panky

Examples

  • More hokey than the inspired objects recalled by the curators: A frumpy teddy bear.

  • But could something quite sensible lie behind this hokey-sounding separation cleanse?

  • By now, everyone knows how to do the Republican presidential hokey pokey: You put your right foot in.

  • Instead of pokey World War II–era planes, the communists deployed MIG fighters that were a match for the best American planes.

  • There was the lifeless and hokey Management ($934,000 box office) and Love Happens ($22 million).

  • I'm so glad the old pokey bonnets are gone but o' fashion—the round ones are much more becoming to young people.

  • She must be a stiff, pokey sort of a person, and I am sure it will be pleasanter without her.

  • I've got a hunch that if you don't, we go to the pokey and Uncle Peter will be left free to blow up everybody in town.

  • I see myself living in a shabby house in a horrid pokey street, with two dirty little maids, and I could almost scream.

  • Here is the poorer Italian colony; organ-grinders, ice-cream-barrow-men, "hokey-pokey" sellers, and their like.