a word that people say when they do a magic trick, in order to make it successful (表演魔術、施魔法時所念的咒語)阿布拉卡達布拉 Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a mystical word engraved and used as a charm to keep away illness): from Latin, first recorded in a 2nd-cent. poem by Q. Serenus Sammonicus, from a Greek base.