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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

car′go cult′, (sometimes caps.)

Anthropologyany of various native religious cults of a millenarian and messianic character located in the southwestern Pacific islands, holding that spirits will bring large cargoes of modern goods for distribution among its adherents.

1945–50

car′go cult′ist.

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