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HUGGER-MUGGER

Definition:

[adverb] in secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger"
[noun] a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"
Synonyms: mumbo jumbo
[adjective] in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"
Synonyms: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, jumbled, topsy-turvy
[adjective] 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"
Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hush-hush, on the quiet, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground