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magic word (plural magic words)

1. Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.
2. (in teaching or training polite words to children) One of the words please, thank you, or hello.

   If you learn to use magic words when you are little, it would be easy in your adulthood.

   What's the magic word?

3. (by extension) Any word that is considered very significant in a certain situation or context.

   When someone offers you drugs, the magic word is "no".

4. (computing) A string of text having some special function or purpose.

   Coordinate term: magic number

   One of the magic words used in the MediaWiki software is __NOTOC__, which hides the table of contents that would normally be on the page.

   • 2021, Clinton L. Jeffery, Build Your Own Programming Language, page 273:

     The header consists of an optional self-execution script, a magic word, a version number, and the word offset of the first instruction, relative to the magic word.