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Definition of mumbo-jumbo noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

mumbo-jumbo

noun

NAmE//ˌmʌmboʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ//

[uncountable] (informal) (disapproving)

language or a ceremony that seems complicated and important but is actually without real sense or meaning; nonsense religious/medical/bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo I won't have anything to do with spiritualism, ghosts and all that mumbo-jumbo.

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mumble verb
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