mojo

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Given the healthy Democratic majority in the Senate, I'm not sure that his mojo is as critical as it might have been.

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  1. noun A magic charm or spell.
  2. noun An amulet, often a small flannel bag containing one or more magic items, worn by adherents of hoodoo or voodoo.
  3. noun Personal magnetism; charm.

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  • That's powerful mojo, as the phone call that Wilson is surely receiving from the TomTom PR stoolie right now will attest.
  • Now it seemed as if her mojo was still operating, because just as the mumbled ceremony was droning to a close, Moselle's mother's large black hat flew into the aisle and a scuffle broke out between the two guys in the front row. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • The Giddy Tigress says: Sometimes I admit I really lose my mojo, my inspiration …. especially when I look at my feeds and they're running hundreds of unread posts. —  Giddy Tigers
  • Now he realizes that HE has fleas and his mojo wasnt strong enough to overcome that. —  Political Animal
  • They seemed to have lost their editorial mojo, and I hear that morale was low as the uncertainty over the future of the site lingered. —  Flash of Steel
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  1. Perhaps ultimately from Fula moco'o, medicine man.
 

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