adverb

• to happen automatically. Implies that the observer has no understanding of the mechanism of action, such that it appears almost magical.

  Windows users thinks everything happens automagically.

  More words meaning: computer slang
  More words meaning: easy, simple
  More words meaning: fast, quick, quickly

  by Allen G., Dec 18 2000  (Edit definition)

• Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you.

  More words meaning: computer slang
  More words meaning: easy, simple
  More words meaning: fast, quick, quickly
  More words meaning: hard, confusing, difficult, a problem

  by The Jargon File, Apr 17 2009  (Edit definition)

origin

• This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word "automagic" occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.

  by The Jargon File, Apr 17 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• something that's easy. See also dossy.

  The exam was a doss.

  More words meaning: easy, simple

  by Kozloff, New York, NY, USA, Jun 28 1997  (Edit definition)

verb

• to lie around; do nothing. Origin: British.

  More words meaning: to waste time

  by Dylan H., Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, Jun 17 2003  (Edit definition)

adjective

• easy. See also doss.

  Singing is dossy.

  More words meaning: easy, simple

  by Kozloff, New York, NY, USA, Jun 28 1997  (Edit definition)

adjective

• very good, excellent; COOL.

  More words meaning: good, okay, cool, awesome, fun

  by Dane Briggs, AZ, USA, Jan 13 1997  (Edit definition)

• profit or unexpected reward. Used for a long time in the business world.

  We expect to at least make back our investment. Anything over that is gravy.

  More words meaning: money

  by Woop, CA, USA, Aug 01 1998  (Edit definition)

• easy.

  Man, that climb was gravy.

  More words meaning: easy, simple

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

adjective

• easy or unchallenging.

  Their high school courses are rinky-dink.

  More words meaning: easy, simple

  by Alida Johnson, Tennessee, USA, May 19 1998  (Edit definition)

• of poor quality; CHEAP.

  Hondas, when they were first manufactured, were pretty rinky-dink cars.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Harry R., Morganville, NJ, USA, Dec 11 1999  (Edit definition)

• small.

  I couldn't stand being in that rinky-dink town any longer.

  More words meaning: small

  by Harry R., Morganville, NJ, USA, Dec 11 1999  (Edit definition)

• clumsy and amateurish in operation, in reference to a small-scale business or organization with limited resources.

  There is a rinky-dink one-plane airstrip near our house.

  More words meaning: business (related to)
  More words meaning: small

  by Harry R., Morganville, NJ, USA, Dec 11 1999  (Edit definition)