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ho⋅cus

  [hoh-kuhs]
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–verb (used with object), -cused, -cus⋅ing or (especially British) -cussed, -cus⋅sing.
1. to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
2. to stupefy with drugged liquor.
3. to drug (liquor).
Origin:
1665–75; short for hocus-pocus
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ho·cus   (hō'kəs)   
tr.v.   ho·cused or ho·cussed, ho·cus·ing or ho·cus·sing, ho·cus·es or ho·cus·ses

  1. To fool or deceive; hoax.

  2. To infuse (food or drink) with a drug.


[Short for hocus-pocus.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hocus

  1. tv.
    to falsify something; to adulterate something. (Part of hocus-pocus = magic, deception.) : Somebody has hocused the booze.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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