Kool-Aid
[kool-eyd]
- a brand name for a powdered mix used to make a sugary, fruit-flavored drink.
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- a drink made from this mix.
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- drink the Kool-Aid, to support or believe in something in a blindly enthusiastic way: A level-headed reporter, he didn’t drink the Kool-Aid on the tax issue.
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Origin of Kool-Aid
def 3 in reference to the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which a cult leader supposedly convinced followers to drink a poisoned beverage
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Examples from the Web for kool-aid
Contemporary Examples
We even had a guy jump his bike over one into a pool of Kool-Aid.
The hype is contagious—and everyone is drinking the Kool-aid.
There was nothing explicitly in the Kool-Aid we drank at Young Judaea.
But then, over time, he began to drink the Islamist kool-aid.
For his part, Akers was hardly drinking the Kool-Aid in terms of appreciating performance art when he took on the project.
Historical Examples
Death Waits was a good kid, but he was a serious imbiber of the kool-aid.
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