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mumbo-jumbo Definition


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mumbo-jumbo
noun mumbo-jumbos
    colloq:
    1. Foolish talk, especially of a religious or spiritual kind.
    2. Baffling jargon.
      Thesaurus: gibberish, doublespeak, cant, claptrap, gobbledygook.
    3. Something, eg a tribal statue, treated as an object of worship.
Etymology: 18c in sense 3.



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