Definition of: hocus-pocus

(hō′kəs·pō′kəs) noun
1. A verbal formula used in conjuring or juggling.
2. A conjurer's trick, or deception wrought as if by the conjurer's art.
—v.t. & v.i. To cheat; trick. [A sham Latin phrase,? alter. of hoc est corpus this is my body, a eucharistic formula]