Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
HOCUS
Etymology
See hocus-pocus.
Verb
hocus (third-person singular simple present hocusses or hocuses, present participle hocussing or hocusing, simple past and past participle hocussed or hocused)
To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat.
(obsolete) To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them).
(obsolete) To drug (liquor).
(obsolete) To adulterate (food).
Noun
hocus (plural hocuses)
(obsolete) A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand.
(obsolete) One who cheats or deceives.
Trick; trickery.
(obsolete) Drugged liquor.
Anagrams
• chous
Source: Wiktionary
Ho"cus, v. t. Etym: [See Hocus-pocus.]
1. To deceive or cheat. Halliwell.
2. To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.
3. To stupefy with drugged liquor. Thackeray.
Ho"cus, n.
1. One who cheats or deceives. South.
2. Drugged liquor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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