Usually means: Magic trick; deception or illusion.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word hocus:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. hocus: Merriam-Webster
  2. hocus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hocus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hocus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hocus, hocus: Wordnik
  6. hocus: Wiktionary
  7. hocus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. hocus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. hocus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hocus, hocus: Dictionary.com
  11. hocus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Hocus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hocus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hocus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Hocus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Hocus: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  17. hocus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hocus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HOCUS: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hocus, hocus, hocus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hocus: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

(Note: See hocused as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hocus)

verb:  To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat.
verb:  (obsolete) To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them).
verb:  (obsolete) To drug (liquor).
verb:  (obsolete) To adulterate (food).
noun:  (obsolete) A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand.
noun:  (obsolete) One who cheats or deceives.
noun:  Trick; trickery.
noun:  (obsolete) Drugged liquor.

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