Usually means: Dance involving limbs, turning around.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. hokey-pokey, the hokey-pokey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. hokey-pokey, hokey-pokey: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hokey-pokey: Wordnik
  4. hokey-pokey, hokey pokey: Wiktionary
  5. hokey-pokey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. hokey-pokey: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. hokey-pokey, hokey pokey: Dictionary.com
  8. hokey-pokey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Hokey-Pokey, Hokey Pokey (album), Hokey Pokey, Hokey pokey (disambiguation), Hokey pokey (ice cream), Hokey pokey, The Hokey Pokey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hokey-pokey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Hokey-pokey: World Wide Words

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  1. hokey-pokey, hokey pokey: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hokey pokey)

noun:  (New Zealand) A confection made from golden syrup, white sugar, and baking soda; honeycomb toffee
noun:  (New Zealand) Vanilla ice cream with small pieces of honeycomb toffee.
noun:  (US, Canada, Australia, preceded by definite article) A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move a variety of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.
noun:  Alternative spelling of Hokey Pokey (“dance”) [(US, Canada, Australia, preceded by definite article) A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move a variety of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.]

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