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Jiggery-pokery

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Noun

1. hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery

verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jiggery-pokery

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noun

informal, mainly British

dishonest or deceitful behaviour or business; trickery

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Jiggery-pokery

see synonyms of jiggery-pokery

noun

Chiefly British, Informal

trickery or deception; hanky-panky

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Jiggery-pokery

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n.

Underhand scheming or behavior.

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