hocus

hocus (someone or something)

1. To deceive someone. Refers to "hocus-pocus" and its association with magic and trickery. I bet he's hocusing me with that ridiculous story.
2. To add a drug to something, typically an alcoholic drink. She's acting so strangely that I'm starting to wonder if someone hocused her drink.
3. To cause one to be dazed or disoriented, typically by using drugs. Whatever you gave me earlier totally hocused me—I could hardly get up off the couch!
See also: hocus
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hocus

tv. to falsify something; to adulterate something. (Part of hocus-pocus = magic, deception.) Somebody has hocused the booze.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hocus (someone or something)
  • hokum
  • inveigle (someone) out of (something)
  • inveigle (something) out of (someone)
  • inveigle out of
  • fake on someone
  • dialog
  • defraud
  • defraud (someone) out of (something)
  • defraud out of
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** MILLIGAN, Laura hocus pocus versus the stinkypong Puffin, 2009 176pp $16.95 pbk ISBN 9780143304265 SCIS 1403292