Kool-Aid
See also: kool-aid
English
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Etymology 1
[edit]Trademark, presumably from cool and -ade, influenced by aid.
Proper noun
[edit]- (US) A sweet, non-carbonated drink made with artificial flavors.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Back-formation from drink the Kool-Aid.
Noun
[edit]- A fad or ideology that is adopted unquestioningly, ignoring its hidden dangers or disadvantages.
- 1998, Leslie Abramson, Richard Flaste, The Defense is Ready: My Life in Crime, →ISBN:
- The problem today isn't really with the Kool Aids; it's with society's refusal to distinguish between him and all the rest who fall into the hands of the system.
- 2010, Jamie Reidy, Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, →ISBN:
- Pfizer reps departed training with a “Pass me the Kool-Aid” conviction that not only were our drugs the best in the industry, but also that our company was the best in the world.
- 2011, Jim Cuba, Running with My Pants Down, →ISBN, page 38:
- Kids are force-fed the Kool-Aid while their skulls are still soft. They have no concept of rational thought and their parents drag them to a church and force them to learn mythology disguised as religious doctrine and try to sell it as fact.
- 2014, Brian Kelly, The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About to Change, →ISBN:
- Hopefully by now you are beginning to see how the Kool-Aid is made, realized it is not poison, and are thinking about taking a sip. You are ready to rush out, buy your first bitcoin, and cash in on the digital gold rush.
- 2015, Paul Langley, Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis, →ISBN, page 60:
- Memorably referred to by Warren Buffet in early 2008 as the 'poetic justice' of 'toxic Kool-Aid' (Dabrowski 2008), the specific issue addressed by these initiatives was the value, valuation, and circulation of assets related to and derived from US sub-prime mortgages.
- 2022 February 1, Marina Hyde, “Never mind wine fridges, the Tory party is drunk on Kool-Aid”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Suitcases full of Kool-Aid seem to have been wheeled into Boris Johnson’s meeting with Tory MPs last night.