pokey

3 definitions • 5 examples

a brand name for a sweet, light, hard food that can be broken into pieces and is made from sugar, golden syrup, and bicarbonate of soda:

I would love some of that homemade hokey pokey.

She scooped up a handful of hokey-pokey and put it in her mouth.

vanilla ice cream containing pieces of honeycomb:

Hokey pokey is New Zealand's most popular ice cream.

a party dance and song in which people stand in a circle and shake their arms and legs one at a time:

Everyone started doing the hokey pokey.

Dance the hokey-pokey, and let yourself laugh loud and often.