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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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Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by mumbo jumbo?
What if we had to break down this avant-guard mumbo jumbo to a notary or a 6-year-old child?
Could any god, even a mumbo jumbo, so treated, hold its place among its votaries?
He discovered that it belonged to a strange bugbear known to all the natives of the neighbourhood as mumbo jumbo.
In such cases, the interposition of mumbo jumbo is called in and is always decisive.
The meeting opened with song and dance till midnight, when mumbo jumbo announced the offending wife.

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