Usually means: Nonsensical, confusing language or jargon.
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  1. gobbledygook: Merriam-Webster
  2. gobbledygook: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gobbledygook: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gobbledygook: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gobbledygook: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gobbledygook, gobbledygook: Wordnik
  7. gobbledygook: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gobbledygook: Wiktionary
  9. gobbledygook: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gobbledygook (gobbledegook): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gobbledygook: Dictionary.com
  12. gobbledygook: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. gobbledygook: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Gobbledygook: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. gobbledygook: Rhymezone
  16. gobbledygook: FreeDictionary.org
  17. gobbledygook: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Gobbledygook: The Word Detective
  19. gobbledygook: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Gobbledygook (book review), Gobbledygook: World Wide Words
  21. gobbledygook: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. gobbledygook: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gobbledygook: Netlingo

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gobbledygook: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. gobbledygook: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (gobbledygook)

noun:  (informal) Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.
noun:  (informal) Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner.

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