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hugger-mugger

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Adjective hugger-mugger has 2 senses
  1. disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy - in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"
    Antonym: tidy (indirect, via untidy)
  2. clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, on the quiet, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground - conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"
    Antonyms: overt, open (indirect, via covert)
Adverbial hugger-mugger has 1 sense
  1. hugger-mugger - in secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger"
Noun hugger-mugger has 1 sense
  1. hugger-mugger, mumbo jumbo - a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"
    --1 is a kind of confusion
    Derived form: verb hugger mugger1
Verb hugger-mugger has 1 sense
  1. hugger mugger - act stealthily or secretively
    --1 is one way to act, behave, do
    Derived form: noun hugger-mugger1
    Sample sentence:
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