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abracadabranoun a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic poweroriginally, an abracadabra was a cryptogram of the word "abracadabra" that was repeated in diminishing form until it disappeared entirely—supposedly just like the targeted evil or misfortune bewitchment, charm, conjuration, enchantment, glamour(also glamor), hex, incantation, invocation, spell, whammy cantrip(chiefly Scottish), curse, jinxbewitchery, conjuring, magic, mojo, necromancy, sorcery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, wizardryamulet, fetish(also fetich), phylactery, talisman unintelligible or meaningless talkafter some abracadabra the spiritualist announced that we had made contact with "the other side" babble, blabber, burble, double Dutch, double-talk, drivel, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, jabberwocky, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, prattle, slobber blah(also blah-blah), hocus-pocus, hokeypokey, twaddlechatter, gab, patter, prate, tattle, twittercackle, clack, clatter in 1565 |