Definition of '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 - 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 secret surreptitious undercover underground
Adverb
- in secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger"
