"kool-aid" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: kool-aids [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} kool-aid (plural kool-aids)
  1. Alternative form of Kool-Aid (unquestioned fad or ideology). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Kool-Aid (extra: unquestioned fad or ideology)
    Sense id: en-kool-aid-en-noun-lI6VKUls Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "All of you military vets that drank that kool-aid and voted for him - shame on you.",
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          "ref": "2012, Melissa White, You Have To Know! A Book of Self-Awareness, pages 41–42",
          "text": "And don't believe everything you see or fall into this alluring trap. Step away from the kool-aid, don't drink, it is no good. The kool-aid looks sweet but it is bitter and poisonous. The dangers of influence does not stop at our career choices, clothing ensembles, hairstyles and religious decisions; the followers of celebrities or whomever they have chosen as their new source of life, impact every aspect of their being.",
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          "ref": "2015, Scott Fearon, Jesse Powell, Dead Companies Walking",
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