Definitions for hokey-pokey

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Spelling: [hoh-kee-poh-kee]

IPA: /ˈhoʊ kiˈpoʊ ki/

Hokey-Pokey is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in hokey-pokey (-eehkkoopyy).

Definitions for hokey-pokey

noun

1. hocus-pocus; trickery.
2. Often, Hokey-Pokey. a dance performed in a circle, or a song describing the simple movements of the dance.
3. ice cream as formerly sold by street vendors.
4. New Zealand. a toffee-flavored candy or ice cream popular in New Zealand.

Origin of hokey-pokey

First recorded in 1840-50; variant of hocus-pocus

Examples for hokey-pokey

Hot gauffrette and hokey-pokey venders are always near at hand.

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.

I didn't notice anything except a hokey-pokey seller, adding his mite to the infant mortality of the district.