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Azabache

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España - Español
I know this means "clandestine" but I would love if you could write some sentences with the word so I see how it is used.

Thanks!
Hi Azabache,
I had never heard it before.

Here's a dictionary definition and example:

hugger-mugger, also huggermugger \HUGG-ur-MUGG-ur\, adjective:
1. Secret; clandestine; sly.
2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.

I followed him to that hugger-mugger cabin he had hidden in the oaks on the other side of the swale and nipped behind the trees.
--Roy Parvin, The Loneliest Road in America

source: http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/1999/11/22.html

ciao,
Cuchuflete
Here are a few more from hyperdictionary.com:

# [n] a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"
# [adv] in secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger"
and...from answers.com:

n.

1. Disorderly confusion; muddle.
2. Secrecy; concealment.

adj.

1. Disorderly; jumbled.
2. Secret; clandestine.
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