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Automagical 

An old mainframe phrase from at least the 80s, meaning when things appear automatically like magic. Typically used with netview and JES2 automatic commands.
I put the start of that batch cobol job in JES2 start commands, that job will start automagically every morning at 2:30.
Automagical by Joe Iron May 17, 2007

automagical 

1. adj, a task/activity that is so complex or so boring/uncomfortable that one doesn't feel like explaining it or bothering to look up how it works.

2. when something just happens
I DON'T KNOW WHY YOUR KIDS LOOK LIKE ME! It just happened automagically!
automagical by JonTron February 24, 2009

automagical 

A common slang word for "automatic". Often used in webblogs and other forms of internet communication.
The phone and the car connect automagically.

Google's corrective spelling feature is automagic.
automagical by Logan April 7, 2005

Automatically systematic 

A phrase meaning "yes." Coined by Willie James Huff, better known as Funky Chicken and Alah Rackbar.
Waco: "Willie, you kinda spit when you talk, man."

Willie: "That's that's that's the Holy Spirit. I don't spit it."

Waco: "So, that's the Holy Spirit spitting on you?"

Willie: "Automatically systematic."

Automagic 

A technology that works but is too complicated to explain or understand
When you click on the send b utton your email goes to the recipient. It's automagic
Automagic by Dan December 19, 2003

automagically 

Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you.

This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.
"The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable."
automagically by Biohertz January 30, 2003