"social lubricant" meaning in English

See social lubricant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: social lubricants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} social lubricant (plural social lubricants)
  1. A food, beverage, drug or activity that helps people feel more comfortable in social occasions. Wikipedia link: social lubricant Related terms: icebreaker
    Sense id: en-social_lubricant-en-noun-teREc~gk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for social lubricant meaning in English (0.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "social lubricants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "social lubricant (plural social lubricants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A food, beverage, drug or activity that helps people feel more comfortable in social occasions."
      ],
      "id": "en-social_lubricant-en-noun-teREc~gk",
      "links": [
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "beverage",
          "beverage"
        ],
        [
          "drug",
          "drug"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "icebreaker"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "social lubricant"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "social lubricant"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "social lubricants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "social lubricant (plural social lubricants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "icebreaker"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A food, beverage, drug or activity that helps people feel more comfortable in social occasions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "beverage",
          "beverage"
        ],
        [
          "drug",
          "drug"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "social lubricant"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "social lubricant"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.