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Hokey (disambiguation)

hokey         
annoyingly contrived
The company picnic had a luau theme, but it looked real hokey.
hokey         
¦ adjective (hokier, hokiest) N. Amer. informal excessively sentimental or contrived.
Derivatives
hokeyness (also hokiness) noun
Origin
1940s: from hokum + -y1.
Hokey Cokey         
FOLK DANCE
Hokey-cokey; Okey-cokey; Hokey-Pokey; Hokey-pokey; The Hokey Cokey; Hoky poky; Hoky pokey; Hokey poky; Cokey cokey; The Hokie Pokie; The Hokey Pokey; Hokie Pokie; Hokey Cokey; Hokey cokey; Hokey pokey; Hokey tokey; The Hokey-Cokey; Cokey Cokey; Hinkumbooby
The Hokey Pokey (Worldwide) also known as Hokey Cokey (United Kingdom, and the Caribbean) is a campfire song and participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure. It is well known in English-speaking countries.

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Hokey

Hokey means corny, mawkishly sentimental, or obviously contrived.

Hokey can also refer to:

Pronunciation examples for hokey
1. hokey.
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2. You do the hokey-pokey...
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3. It actually sounds really hokey
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4. You do the hokey-pokey
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5. You do the hokey-pokey...
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Examples of use of hokey
1. They were doing the hokey cokey without even being drunk.
2. But – as the song says: "You do the hokey–cokey and you turn around.
3. The compulsory sports are alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, ice hokey, short–track, speed skating, figure skating and biathlon.
4. Then she encouraged other delegates to join her, linking hands in an international version of the hokey–cokey.
5. All this self–greening has been presented with the hokey mateyness that has become Dave‘s trademark.