HOCUS-POCUS Meaning of HOCUS-POCUS in English ■ noun1》 meaningless talk used for trickery. 2》 a conjuror's incantation.OriginC17: from hax pax max Deus adimax , a pseudo-Latin phr. used as a magic formula by conjurors. Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004