MUMBOJUMBO

MumboJumbo

MumboJumbo, LLC is an independent developer of games for personal computers, game consoles and mobile devices. The company was established in January 2001 to develop games and in 2003 became one of the first independent developers to popularize casual games by partnering with portal sites to make games available for download directly to Windows and Mac computers.

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Mumbo Jumbo

Mumbo Jumbo is a 1972 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed. Literary critic Harold Bloom cited the novel as one of the 500 most important books in the Western canon. Reed wrote a sequel, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, published in 1974.

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Mumbo jumbo

Mumbo jumbo, or mumbo-jumbo, is an English phrase or expression that denotes a confusing or meaningless subject. It is often used as humorous expression of criticism of middle-management and civil service non-speak, and of belief in practices based on superstition, rituals intending to cause confusion or languages that the speaker does not understand.

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mumbo jumbo

Noun

  1. A deity or other supernatural being said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol.
  2. Any object of superstition; religious words and/or actions which are seen as superstitious or fraudulent.
    Rev. Quack's healing services are little more than mumbo jumbo.
  3. Any confusing or meaningless speech; nonsense, gibberish.
    Football lingo is mumbo jumbo to me.
    There were a bunch of foreigners speaking their Mumbo Jumbo clustered ahead of me at Customs.


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