[ˈhəʊkəs], (Verb)

Definitions:
- deceive (someone)
(e.g: it is designed to hocus the people)

- stupefy (someone) with drugs, typically for a criminal purpose
(e.g: he was hocussed at supper and lost £800)


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Origin:
late 17th century: from an obsolete noun hocus ‘trickery’, from hocus-pocus