abracadabra
exclamation /ˌæbrəkəˈdæbrə/
/ˌæbrəkəˈdæbrə/
- a word that people say when they do a magic trick, in order to make it successfulWord Originlate 17th cent. (as a mystical word engraved and used as a charm to keep away illness): from Latin, first recorded in a 2nd-cent. poem by Q. Serenus Sammonicus, from a Greek base.