hokey
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They mounted double-decker buses and utility poles, waved flags, lit bonfires and danced the Hokey Pokey around a statue of Queen Victoria.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The process of appointing his replacement garnered ridicule as candidates were in and out like a managerial Hokey Cokey, all before Danny Rohl re-emerged to take charge after earlier withdrawing from the race.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
Nehls went on to joke about intraparty loyalty to Trump, saying the president-elect could lead a congressional Hokey Pokey with little to no objection.
From Salon • Nov. 13, 2024
“I guess it started with ‘The Hokey Pokey’ and ‘Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,’ and then I graduated to ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz,’ and we just kept going from there, you know?”
From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2023
“And now it is time to hear from Hokey the house-elf, who worked for a very old, very rich witch by the name of Hepzibah Smith.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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