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abacadaba 

"ABACADABA!" cried the magician.

Then the earth exploded.
abacadaba by Jayden Shaw September 17, 2006

Abracadabra 

Abracadabra is considered to be the most universally adopted phrase that is pronounced in other languages without translation. One hypothesis about the source of the word is Aramaic: Avrah KaDabra which means I will create as I speak. Due to its universal acceptance, it has been speculated by Bible-believers that the word predates the confusion of languages granted at the Tower of Babel in biblical times.

It is now commonly used as an incantation by magicians. In ancient times, however, the word was taken much more seriously as an incantation to be used as a cure against fevers and inflammations. The first known mention was in De Medicina Praecepta by Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that the sufferer from the disease wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of an inverted cone:

A B R A C A D A B R A
A B R A C A D A B R
A B R A C A D A B
A B R A C A D A
A B R A C A D
A B R A C A
A B R A C
A B R A
A B R
A B
A

This, he explained, diminishes the hold of the spirit of the disease over the patient. Other Roman emperors, including Geta and Alexander Severus, were followers of the medical teachings of Serenus Sammonicus and are likely to have used the incantation as well.

There is also the view that Abracadabra derives from the Hebrew, ha-brachah, meaning "the blessing" (used in this sense as a euphemism for "the curse") and dabra, an Aramaic form of the Hebrew word dever, meaning "pestilence." They point to a similar kabbalistic cure for blindness, in which the name of Shabriri, the demon of blindness, is similarly diminished. Other scholars are skeptical of this origin and claim that the idea of diminishing the power of demons was common throughout the ancient world, and that Abracadabra was simply the name of one such demon.

Some point to the Hebrew words ab ("father"), ben ("son"), and ruach hacadosch ("holy spirit").

Some have argued that the term may come from the Arabic Abra Kadabra, meaning 'let the things be destroyed' or from the Aramaic abhadda kedhabhra, meaning 'disappear like this word'. Rather than being used as a curse, the Aramaic phrase is believed to have been used as a means of treating illness.

It has also been claimed that the word comes Abraxas, a Gnostic word for God (the source of 365 emanations, apparently the Greek letters for Abraxas add up to 365 when deciphered according to numerological methods).

See also: Hocus Pocus, presto and Avada Kedavra (a Harry Potter reference).
Read the "Holy Books of the Golden Dawn"
Abracadabra by Thanatos February 2, 2005

ABBACADABBA 

Spell out this secret scantron code to screw up the machine and make it spit out candy. It will give the person who entered the code at least a D on scanners built from 1965-1980 and at least a 81+ on scantron readers built through 2000.
guy 1: I totally bombed that test, how did you do?
guy 2: I'm a test wizard. I used a little ABBACADABBA and aced it.
ABBACADABBA by FalseFacts December 14, 2012

Abadabab 

When two people simultaneously begin speaking, then stop and insist the other begin and then they go back and forth.
Kyle: "So I was..."
Seth: "Didja hear the one..."
Kyle: "Sorry, you first."
Seth: "No you first."
Kyle: "No I insist."
Seth: "Abadabab."
Abadabab by The Deaner March 26, 2010

Abracadabrant 

You are one of the most abracadabrant creations under the sun... the moon... and the stars...
Abracadabrant by miss minnock February 22, 2011

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when your girl horny as fuck she gives you head but not just any head the best head of your life
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