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mojo
noun- a spell, magic US, 1926
- “Does this mean that number sixteen, the hole I just bet Lard Ass Louis Huckle five thousand dollars on, has a mojo on it?” “That be the correct terminology, Balls.” — Jimmy Buffett, Tales from Margaritaville, p. 120, 1989
- sexuality, libido, sexual attraction US
The song “Got My Mojo Working” was sung on stage by Ann Cole in 1956–the lyric continues: “but it just won’t work on you”. In 1971, The Doors released a song entitled “Mr Mojo Risin”; the title serves as an anagram for the singer Jim Morrison and as an advertisement for his dangerous sexuality. This meaning, however, was not widely appreciated before the second Austin Powers film opened in 1999, but it caught on quickly thereafter. - The mojo is the life force, the essence, the libido, the “right stuff.” — Austin Powers, 1999
- Felix Carter has worked his mojo on a weak-at-the-knees makeup girl and the day is over. — Andrew Holmes, Sleb, p. 104, 2002
- hard drugs, especially powdered drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine US, 1935
From the sense “a kind of magic”; first recorded in this sense as is “morphine”. - — Haldeen Braddy, American Speech, p. 87, May 1955: “Narcotic argot along the Mexican Border”
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 343, 1986
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 206, 2002
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 284, 2003
- an early version of the fax machine US, 1990
Very slow, very cumbersome, but for its day a great advance, almost “magical”, hence the term. Popularised by Hunter S. Thompson’s writings. - I can hear the Mojo Wire humming frantically across the room. [Tim] Crouse is stuffing page after page of gibberish into it. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, p. 478, April 1972: Letter to Jan Wenner
- He installed an electric telecopier in his Palm Spring digs and, when Thompson expressed wonder at the “mojo wire,” provided one for him as well. — Robert Anson, Gone Crazy and Back Again, p. 283, 1981
- It’d sent it on the mojo and they didn’t know that had mojos in the building. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 147, 1990
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