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hokey-pokey
[ hoh-kee-poh-kee ]
noun
- hocus-pocus; trickery.
- Often Hokey-Pokey. a dance performed in a circle, or a song describing the simple movements of the dance.
- ice cream as formerly sold by street vendors.
- New Zealand. a toffee-flavored candy or ice cream popular in New Zealand.
- Hokey-Pokey. a brand of white chocolate ice cream with honeycomb and caramel.
hokey-pokey
/ ˌhəʊkɪˈpəʊkɪ /
Word History and Origins
Origin of hokey-pokey1
Example Sentences
By now, everyone knows how to do the Republican presidential hokey pokey: You put your right foot in.
She jumped up and down and did the hokey pokey and shouted to the rooftops from it.
Here is the poorer Italian colony; organ-grinders, ice-cream-barrow-men, "hokey-pokey" sellers, and their like.
They both laughed, feeling like mischievous children who had played a successful trick on the hokey-pokey man.
Hokey Pokey stepped lightly forward, and dropped the round loaf down the great red throat.
I didn't notice anything except a hokey-pokey seller, adding his mite to the infant mortality of the district.
Hot gauffrette and hokey-pokey venders are always near at hand.
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