All hocus-pocus synonyms

noun hocus-pocus

• sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• magic — the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring: to pull a rabbit out of a hat by magic.
• chant — A chant is a word or group of words that is repeated over and over again.
• legerdemain — sleight of hand.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• rigmarole — an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
• gibberish — meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing.
• occultism — belief in the existence of secret, mysterious, or supernatural agencies.
• conjuring — the performance of tricks that appear to defy natural laws
• mummery — the performance of mummers.
• abracadabra — Abracadabra is a word that someone says when they are performing a magic trick in order to make the magic happen.
• mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• incantation — the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power.
• cant — a salient angle.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• jargon — a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
• cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• spell — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• charm — Charm is the quality of being pleasant or attractive.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• monkey business — frivolous or mischievous behavior.
• mumbo jumbo — meaningless incantation or ritual.
• open sesame — any marvelously effective means for bringing about a desired result: Wealth is the open sesame to happiness.
• sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
• smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
• gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
• hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.