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mumbo jumbo

/muhm-boh -juhm-boh/US // ˈmʌm boʊ ˈdʒʌm boʊ //

胡说八道,胡言乱语,糊涂虫,莫须有的罪名

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mum·bo jum·bos.

    • : meaningless incantation or ritual.
    • : senseless or pretentious language, usually designed to obscure an issue, confuse a listener, or the like.
    • : an object of superstitious awe or reverence.
    • : the guardian of western Sudan villages symbolized by a masked man who combats evil and punishes women for breaches of tribal laws.

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Examples

  • As the driver bios appeared on the jumbo screen, I flashed a toothy grin after noticing that two of them were women.

  • Please go to BobQ2014.com for details and all that attorney mumbo-jumbo.

  • They're always trying to upsell you on that jumbo popcorn bucket at the movies.

  • This was appropriate because just like her jumbo soda, her twenty minute speech was filled with empty calories.

  • It's really twisted and sick mumbo-jumbo to try to pass this off as part of God's plan.

  • He had leaped very smartly to this point of vantage, nevertheless he found Jumbo there before him, chattering worse than ever!

  • Had his legs been longer, Fred Greenwood would have pronounced him the equal of Jumbo himself.

  • Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by Mumbo Jumbo?

  • Me Jumbo—come to lay breakfast, and cappen say you hab what you like ask for, especially someting nice for de young lady.

  • They kept up the jumbo sail, as the main jib is called; they reefed the foresail down to its smallest compass.