Usually means: Dismiss or ignore details casually.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (handwave)

noun:  (literally) The wave of a hand.
noun:  A glib statement or explanation that glosses over important details.
verb:  (rhetoric, academia) To explain something superficially, skipping over important details, perhaps appealing to intuition instead.

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