hoci-poci

hoci-poci

1. plural of hocus-pocus
   • 1921 November 26, John V[an] A[lstyne] Weaver, “Newspaperdom”, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 81, number 327, New York, N.Y., page 3, column 1:

     After the various hoci-poci had been achieved, we were led up to the graduate who shared at that time with Elihu Root and “Sunny Jim” Sherman the aura of considerable fame.

   • 1941 November 14, Bob Levin, “Grid Stars Adher To Own Peculiar Superstitions”, in The Daily Tar Heel, volume L, number 45, Chapel Hill, N.C., page 1, column 3:

     Maybe it’s just a disease which owes its origin to football, but anyhow—the boys who excel in speed, stamina, and muscle surely do have their share of pre-game hoci-poci.

   • 1945, Public Relations Journal, page 13, column 2:

     Black-robed judges, ponderous oaths of admission, apprenticeship notions and rigorous bar examinations, professional renunciation of self-advertisement and a hundred lesser hoci-poci characterize the brotherhood.

   • 1968 June 12, Eugene Callaway, “Mumbo-Jumbo”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, number 141, Montgomery, Ala., page 4, column 5:

     I also resent the fact that for an opportunistic politician, the whole country is thrown into mourning with all the mumbo-jumbo, incantations and even the hoci poci, while the 400-odd are offered as statistics.