verb
- past tense of hocus; to deceive or trick someone
Usage: archaic; informal
Examples
- The magician hocussed the audience with his sleight of hand.
- She felt hocussed by the salesman’s smooth talk.
- The con artist hocussed several victims out of their money.
- He realized he had been hocussed when the deal fell through.
- The old-fashioned term ‘hocussed’ means to have been bamboozled.