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Definition of drink the Kool-Aid
drink the Kool-Aid
verb
- to succumb to any external influence that affects a person's opinion of something.
The presenters at the conference claimed to be independent contractors, but you could tell they had drank the Kool-Aid.
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Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
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Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'aid': | |
| Definitions include: a temporary or inadequate fix for a problem. | |
| Definitions include: a person one intends to ask out; an intended pick-up. | |
| Definitions include: when someone tries to move in on a person's girlfriend or boyfriend. | |
Other terms relating to 'drink': | |
| Definitions include: to drink a great amount of alcohol in a single setting, rather than to drink less but over a longer period of time. | |
| Definitions include: While imbibing an alcoholic shot, the act of clinking your glass with a partner, sinking the glass to the table, then raising and drinking the shot. | |
| Definitions include: to become overwhelmed with information. | |
| Definitions include: to drink alcohol to excess. | |
| Definitions include: verb - to heavily make out and really go at it. | |
| Definitions include: to provide alcohol to another person. | |
| Definitions include: a body of water. | |
| Definitions include: to be able to drink more alcohol than another. | |
| Definitions include: very busy. | |
| Definitions include: a tall person. | |
Other terms relating to 'kool': | |
| Definitions include: a person one intends to ask out; an intended pick-up. | |
| Definitions include: when someone tries to move in on a person's girlfriend or boyfriend. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
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