hokey pokey
Noun
Meaning
Alternative spelling of Hokey Pokey (“dance”)
(New Zealand) A confection made from golden syrup, white sugar, and baking soda; honeycomb toffee
(New Zealand) Vanilla ice cream with small pieces of honeycomb toffee.
Hokey Pokey
(US, Canada, Australia, preceded by definite article) A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move a variety of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.
hokey-pokey (plural hokey-pokeys)
Alternative form of Hokey Pokey
Alternative names
hokey-pokey
Synonyms
Examples
Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.
The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You put your whole self in!
You do the Hokey Pokey, turn yourself around, and then you smash the pool table you just built to bits with a sledgehammer.