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mumbo jumbo
noun- meaningless jargon UK, 1896
- If you looked at it clearly without the aura of military mumbo-jumbo, it became absurd, perverted, a revolting idea. — Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, p. 314, 1948
- Joe Bell showed me his picture in the paper. Blackhand. Mafia. All that mumbo jumbo; but they gave him five years. — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, p. 25, 1958
- All this synchronization business and mumbo-jumbo. — J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, p. 39, 1961
- [T]he lead singer’s twerpy attempts at Doctor John-ish mumbo-jumbo [...] were godawful. — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 98, 1972
- All these shrink and psycho mumbo-jumbo artists is making good money on these prison staffs and they don’t know shit. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 42, 1975
- What kind of mumbo-jumbo bullshit was this? — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 134, 1978
- Er yeah. Er all that y’ve just said, y’know, the mumbo jumbo–what it means is er ... what does it mean? — Alan Bleasdale, Boys From the Blackstuff, 1982
- any religion or religious practice, especially one that has or appears to have its roots in Africa UK
- I can smell that damned incense. You are trying to drive me round the bend, with your mumbo jumbo. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 199, 1956
- “Jesus Christ,” Princess Grace says, not liking it at all, him being very much into all kinds of Central American mumbo jumbo lately. — Robert Campbell, In a Pig’s Eye, p. 22, 1991
- Caleb knows that was a load of mumbo jumbo. Ju-ju bollocks from Maria’s dad! — Jack Allen, When the Whistle Blows, p. 86, 2000
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