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:automagically: /aw-toh-maji-klee/ /adv./ 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 doesnt feel like explaining to you. See magic. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable." This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s and probably much earlier. The word automagic occurred inadvertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.
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