hocus-pocus
/ˌhoʊkəs ˈpoʊkəs/
meaningless incantation; trickery dressed as ritual
hocus-pocus in a sentence
“The demo was hocus-pocus: impressive syllables, no mechanism.”
Origin of hocus-pocus
17th-century conjurers' formula, possibly parodying the Latin Mass's hoc est corpus
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