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What is mumbo jumbo?

What is mumbo jumbo? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A deity or other supernatural being said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol.
  2. (religion) Any object of superstition; religious words and/or actions which are seen as superstitious or fraudulent.
  3. Any confusing or meaningless speech; nonsense, gibberish.
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What if we had to break down this avant-guard mumbo jumbo to a notary or a 6-year-old child?
Television has played no small part in the creation of an aura of respectability around supernatural mumbo jumbo, whether it be presented as new age or old school.
To justify to men the ways of their mumbo jumbo has sorely exercised the votaries of the Atom.
Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by mumbo jumbo?
The meeting opened with song and dance till midnight, when mumbo jumbo announced the offending wife.
She could as soon have attempted a theological argument with a devotee of mumbo jumbo.

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