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Kool-Aid, n.
Brit. |ˈkuːleɪd|, U.S. |ˈkulˌeɪd|
Forms: 19– Cool-Aid, 19– Kool-Ade, 19– Kool-Aid, 19– Kool-Aide; Also with lower-case initial in the first or second element.
[‹ kool, alteration of cool adj. and adv. and int. + -aid, alteration of -ade suffix (after lemonade n., orangeade n., etc.).
The alterations in the headword form of this word's constituent elements are probably intended to give an eye-catching appearance to the written form of the proprietary name; other variants show the influence of the standard spellings of those elements.In sense 2 with allusion to the obedience perceived to have been demonstrated by members of the Peoples' Temple, a religious and political movement, when they committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978, by drinking a cyanide-laced drink thought to be similar to Kool-Aid (compare quots. 1978, 1979 1).]
1. N. Amer. A proprietary name for: a (typically brightly coloured) powdered concentrate which is added to water or another liquid to make a fruit-flavoured drink; a drink made from this.
1927Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Nov. 1052/1 Kool-Ade... Prepared powder containing flavor, fruit acid, and color put up in a number of flavors for making nonalcoholic beverage in the home. 1948Life 6 Sept. 6/3 (advt.) Dissolve 1 pkg. Kool-Aid (any flavor) and 1 cup sugar in 2 cups milk. 1973Black World June 55/1 His friend had some orange kool aid. You know people mail kool aid in envelopes. 1978Facts on File (Nexis) 24 Nov. a1 At Jonestown the soldiers were horrified to find the bodies of hundreds of cult members who had been shot or had committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. 1979Washington Post 14 Jan. g8/1 No doubt about it, if he had ordered the SS to pass around the Kool-Aid [at the Nuremberg rally], all those crewcut Nazis would have tossed it back with the same fervor with which they cheered Hess' ravings. 2002S. M. Kidd Secret Life of Bees (2003) 121 When he laughed, his tongue was grass green from Kool-Aid.
2. U.S.to drink the Kool-Aid: to demonstrate unquestioning obedience or loyalty. Also to drink the—— Kool-Aid: to support—— wholeheartedly; to commit unquestioningly to——.
1987Washington Post 17 July a8 You don't follow anyone blindly... We love Marion Barry... But if Marion Barry disrespects us, we will cry out... We will not blindly drink the Kool-Aid any longer. 1996Time 2 Sept. 28/2 He's like a cult leader... The client has to get in there, drink the Kool-Aid and look him in the eye. 2002N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Oct. 80/3 A big reason people in this city were initially reluctant to drink the New Economy Kool-Aid was the sense that the digital revolution threatened our primacy in the national economy and culture. |