[U] (informal, disapproving) language or a ceremony that seems complicated and important but is actually without real sense or meaning; nonsense:
religious / medical / bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo * I won't have anything to do with spiritualism, ghosts and all that mumbo-jumbo.
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