English Dictionary

hocus-pocus

/ˌhəʊkəs ˈpəʊkəs/

noun

(uncountable) Some ineffectual action or speech, especially if intended to divert attention; nonsense.

He tried to impress his boss with all that hocus-pocus.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Some ineffectual action or speech, especially if intended to divert attention; nonsense.

意味（2）

(uncountable, derogatory) Religious or supernatural phenomena one holds to be nonsense or mere trickery; superstitious mumbo-jumbo.

How was it possible that I, a rational man, not unacquainted with the leading scientific facts of our history, and hitherto an absolute and utter disbeliever in all the hocus-pocus which in Europe goes by the name of the supernatural, could believe that I had within the last few minutes been engaged in conversation with a woman two thousand and odd years old?

意味（3）

(countable, uncountable, chiefly US, also attributively) Some action carried out to bring about change as if by magic; a trick; sleight of hand, trickery.

意味（4）

(countable, obsolete) A conjurer.

意味（5）

(countable, obsolete) A conjurer's trick.