Definition of "hokey-pokey" [hokey-pokey]

• A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them all about. (noun)

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• "Let Andrea Mitchell make fun of her hokey-pokey ways – it just endears her to that crowd ever more."
• "He limps around, bouncing, kicking, giving it a bit of a hokey-pokey shake here and there."
• "I've led a hokey-pokey circle around City Hall in protest of New York's dance laws, attended a death metal festival dressed as a member of the Christian hair metal band, Stryper, and lay in a hospital bed on death's door because of lack of health insurance."