Usually means: Confusingly secretive or jumbled mess.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word hugger mugger:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. hugger-mugger: Merriam-Webster
  2. hugger-mugger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hugger-mugger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hugger-mugger, hugger-mugger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hugger-mugger, hugger mugger: Vocabulary.com
  6. hugger-mugger: Wordnik
  7. hugger-mugger: Wiktionary
  8. hugger-mugger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. hugger-mugger: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hugger-mugger, hugger mugger: Dictionary.com
  11. Hugger-mugger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. hugger-mugger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. hugger-mugger, hugger mugger: Rhymezone
  14. Hugger-mugger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. hugger-mugger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Hugger - mugger: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. hugger-mugger, hugger mugger: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hugger-mugger, hugger mugger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hugger-mugger, hugger mugger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Hugger-mugger: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hugger-mugger: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hugger-mugger: A Word A Day
  2. hugger-mugger: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hugger-mugger, hugger mugger: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hugger_muggering as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (hugger mugger)

verb:  act stealthily or secretively


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