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   hokey-pokey

   /həʊkɪˈpəʊki/

   noun

   • 1. ice cream of a kind formerly sold on the street, especially by Italian street vendors: trademark "she got me a double cone of hokey-pokey"
   • ▪ a kind of brittle toffee or honeycomb: trademark in UK "for those with a sweet tooth, what about hokey-pokey?"
   • 2. deception; trickery. informal US
   • 3. a group dance performed in a circle with a synchronized shaking of the limbs in turn, accompanied by a simple song. US

   Word Origin late 19th century (in sense ‘deception, trickery’): perhaps from hocus-pocus.

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