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hobgoblin, n. 1. bogy, evil spirit, demon, devil, ghoul; boogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo; ghost, Inf spook, specter, apparition, phantom.
2. hob, goblin,
(in German folklore) kobold, devil-kin, imp, Irish Folklore, leprechaun, pixy, puck, sprite, elf, brownie, bad fairy; (in Scandinavian folklore) troll, gnome, dwarf, pygmy.

hobnob, v. fraternize, mingle, mix, rub elbows with; socialize, Sl. club or party with; keep company with, consort, associate, go around with, Inf pal around with, Inf. hang around with, Sl. hang out with.

hobo, n. 1. tramp, vagrant, beachcomber, vagabond, derelict, Dial, bawky, street Arab; Inf bum, Sl. vag, Sl. bo, Sl. stiff, Sl. bindle stiff, Sl. canvas back. 2. migrant or migrant worker, Usu. Disparaging. Okie, drifter, Inf floater, transient, fly-by-night, bird of passage, Sl. rolling stone; rambler, rover, roamer, wanderer, gypsy, nomad.

hocus, v. 1. trick, practice trickery or deception upon, deceive, hoodwink, jockey; dupe, gull, take in, cozen, befool, Archaic, chouse; humbug, Inf. flimflam, Inf. practice upon; cheat, bilk, swindle, defraud, palm off, job, victimize, diddle; hoax, betray, Inf. sell out, play false; mislead, bluff, beguile, delude, impose upon, mystify, bamboozle, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes; fake, counterfeit, dissemble, dissimulate, sham, pretend, Brit. Inf. gammon; bait, lure, entice, inveigle, ensnare, snare, entangle, entrap, trap, deacon; circumvent, outwit, outmaneuver, overreach, evade.
2. drug, narcotize,
Sl. dope or dope up; stupefy, deaden, dull, blunt; anesthetize, numb, benumb, paralyze, render insensible or incompetent; corrupt, adulterate, treat, alter, contaminate, doctor, falsify.

hocus-pocus, n. 1. mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, open sesame, magic word, magic formula; incantation, chant, invocation, conjuration, conjuring, evocation.
2. juggler's trick, jugglery, sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation,
Brit, hanky-panky; feint, deception of the eye, trompe 1'oeil, Inf. dodge, fetch; magic, conjuring, conjuration.
3. trickery, hokey-pokey, chicane, chicanery; deception, deceit, artifice, shrewdness, hanky-panky; stratagem, wile, finesse, ruse, shift, maneuver, circumvention; trap, scheme, intrigue, plan, contrivance, complot, conspiracy; trick, hoax, humbug, sham, delusion, pretense; prank, jape, spoof; cunning, slyness, craft, craftiness, guile; cheat, cozenage,
Inf. gyp; swindle, Archaic, chouse, fraud, imposture; cardsharping, double-dealing, duplicity, Obs. cog, confidence game, con game, the old army game.
4. obfuscation, elaboration, magnifying, amplification; padding, redundancy, superfluous words, overstatement, repetition; wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, prolixness, verbiage, verbalism; diffuseness, profuseness, effusion, effusiveness; jargon, cant, nonsense, gobbledegook.
-v. 5. trick, practice trickery
or deception upon, deceive, hoodwink, jockey; dupe, gull, take in, cozen, befool, Archaic, chouse; humbug, Inf. flimflam, Inf practice upon; cheat, bilk, swindle, defraud, palm off, job, victimize, diddle; hoax, betray, Inf. sell out, play false; mislead, bluff, beguile, delude, impose upon, mystify, bamboozle, pull the wool over one's eyes; fake, counterfeit, dissemble, dissimulate, sham, pretend, Brit. Inf. gammon; bait, lure, entice, inveigle, ensnare, snare, entangle, entrap, trap; circumvent, outwit, outmaneuver, overreach, evade.

hodgepodge, n. mixture, jumble, melange, gallimaufry, farrago, patchwork, mosaic; potpourri, mishmash, Brit, hotchpotch, hash; all sorts, oddments, sundries, odds and ends, old curiosity shop, a little of this and a little of that; this, that and the other; tangle, mess, scramble, welter, clutter, litter, higgledy-piggledy; miscellany, miscellanea, olla-podrida, olio, variety, Inf. omnium-gatherum, Inf. mixed bag; conglomeration, composite, commixture, combination.

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