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Noun: mumbo jumbo  'múm-bow'júm-bow
Usage: informal
  1. Meaningless or unnecessarily complicated language or ritual
    "The technical jargon sounded like mumbo jumbo to the layperson";
    - hocus-pocus
     
  2. Incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
    "pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo and pontifical hooey";
    - gobbledygook [informal], bafflegab [N. Amer, informal], gobbledegook [informal]

Derived forms: mumbo jumbos

Type of: gibber, gibberish, jargon

Encyclopedia: Mumbo jumbo