Meaning & use
mumbo-jumbo
Language or a ritual that is confusing, meaningless, or deliberately hard to understand.
See it in a sentence
The contract was full of legal mumbo-jumbo that nobody in the room could explain.
She dismissed the salesman's technical mumbo-jumbo and asked him to explain it simply.
A note on using this word
Mumbo-jumbo is informal and often used to criticize jargon that seems designed to confuse rather than clarify.
Words with a similar meaning
gibberishnonsense
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