Kool-Aid

[kool-eyd]

Trademark.

a brand name for a powdered mix used to make a sugary, fruit-flavored drink.

noun

a drink made from this mix.

Idioms

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.

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 of kool-aid

We even had a guy jump his bike over one into a pool of Kool-Aid.
Dude, Where’s My Bus? Fast Times in the Iconic VW Van
Scott Jennings
October 13, 2013
The hype is contagious—and everyone is drinking the Kool-aid.
Banksy’s Unexpected Turn
Justin Jones
October 7, 2013
There was nothing explicitly in the Kool-Aid we drank at Young Judaea.
No Bulldozers?
Orly Halpern
September 11, 2012
But then, over time, he began to drink the Islamist kool-aid.
Bachmann, Gaffney, and the GOP’s Anti-Muslim Culture of Conspiracy
Jonathan Kay
July 23, 2012
For his part, Akers was hardly drinking the Kool-Aid in terms of appreciating performance art when he took on the project.
Marina Abramović’s Silent Revolution in Performance Art
Chris Lee
January 23, 2012

Historical Examples of kool-aid

Death Waits was a good kid, but he was a serious imbiber of the kool-aid.
Makers
Cory Doctorow