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单词 hocus
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Definition of hocus in English:

hocus

verbhocusses, hocuses, hocused, hocussed, hocusing, hocussing ˈhəʊkəsˈhoʊkəs
[with object]archaic
  • 1Deceive (someone)

    these people have been hocussed and cheated by the government
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This applies particularly to commercial albumin, especially egg, which is hocused to a great extent by the unscrupulous.
    • These surfers have hocused the Feds for long enough.
    • I think you were hocused by the telephoto lens that was apparantly used to take the photograph you are referring to.
  • 2Stupefy (someone) with drugs, typically for a criminal purpose.

    he was hocussed at supper and lost £800
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But I was one night suspected of hocussing and robbing a sailor, and - though if I was on my death-bed I could swear that I never had any hand in the affair at all - I was so blown upon that I was forced to shift my quarters.

Origin

Late 17th century: from an obsolete noun hocus 'trickery', from hocus-pocus.

Rhymes

Archilochus, Cocos, crocus, focus, hocus-pocus, locus
 
 

Definition of hocus in US English:

hocus

verbˈhōkəsˈhoʊkəs
[with object]archaic
  • Deceive (someone)

    these people have been hocussed and cheated by the government
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I think you were hocused by the telephoto lens that was apparantly used to take the photograph you are referring to.
    • This applies particularly to commercial albumin, especially egg, which is hocused to a great extent by the unscrupulous.
    • These surfers have hocused the Feds for long enough.

Origin

Late 17th century: from an obsolete noun hocus ‘trickery’, from hocus-pocus.

 
 
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