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 mum·bo jum·bo /ˌmʌmboˈʤʌm(ˌ)bo/

 Mum·bo Jum·bo n.
 1. Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose; hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo.
    The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded.   --Dickens.
 2. An object of superstitious homage and fear.
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 mumbo jumbo
      n 1: language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand
      2: a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and
         purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he
         engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"
         [syn: hugger-mugger]