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HOCUSPOCUS

Definitions: HOCUSPOCUS

HOCUSPOCUS

Noun

1. A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense.

2. A juggler or trickster.

3. A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.

Transitive verb

1. To cheat.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "HOCUSPOCUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Anagrams: HOCUSPOCUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-h-o-o-p-s-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: couscous.
	-4 letters: cuscus, scoops.
	-5 letters: chops, cocos, cohos, cooch, coops, couch, coups, cusps, cusso, hocus, hoops, ouphs, pooch, poohs, pouch, scoop, scops, scups, shoos, shops, sophs, soups.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: HOCUSPOCUS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 4F 43 55 53 50 4F 43 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.... --- -.-. ..- ... .--. --- -.-. ..- ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001111 01000011 01010101 01010011 01010000 01001111 01000011 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#79 &#67 &#85 &#83 &#80 &#79 &#67 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 0043 0055 0053 0050 004F 0043 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42493755535049375553

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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