Definition of reachin' critical mass

reach critical mass    

verb

• to reach the point at which an idea or product becomes successful.

  My startup finally reached critical mass.

                                                                                                                                                                                              
  
  Citation from "Planning for growth: Increasing profitability", HSBC censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: successful.

  Last edited on Apr 28 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'successful':
bigs, the	Definitions include: shortened form of "the big leagues".
touchdown	Definitions include: a success.
kill	Definitions include: high-grade marijuana.
in like Huck Finn	Definitions include: in a position where some goal is easily attainable.
big leagues, the	Definitions include: a baseball reference, meaning "that area of (some context-dependent thing) that only successful people can reach."
get off the ground	Definitions include: to succeed initially.
take off	Definitions include: to leave.
boom	Definitions include: to sell.
smash	Definitions include: a successful thing, especially a movie.
go the distance	Definitions include: to be successful.
ball	Definitions include: to be successful.
in like Flynn	Definitions include: in a position where some goal is easily attainable.
score a touchdown	Definitions include: see touchdown.
home run	Definitions include: In the "sexual contact as baseball achievement" metaphor, means sexual intercourse.

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Other terms relating to 'mass':
dumbmasses	Definitions include: the dumb (unintelligent) masses.
mass	Definitions include: very; really; extremely.
mass mimic	Definitions include: a person that follows trends and does not think for themselves, especially in reference to fashion, music etc.
Other terms relating to 'reach':
boarding house reach	Definitions include: at a dining table, a reach to retrieve something a long distance away.
Reach	Definitions include: emphatic substitute for "rich"
reach around	Definitions include: the act of reaching from behind a person to touch body parts of a sexual nature.

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