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automagically
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/awtohmajiklee/ , adv. Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason
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(typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too
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trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. The
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C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc (1) to
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produce an executable. This term is quite old, going back at least to the
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mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word automagic occurred in
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advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.
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