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n. See [681]bogotify.

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automagically /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ adv.

Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because

it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the

speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See [685]magic. "The

C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to

produce an executable."

This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon

and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in

advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late

1940s.

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