Frankenstein
noun
- the title character in a novel (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: he is a young medical student who creates a monster that destroys him
- popularly Frankenstein's monster
- any person destroyed by his or her own creation
- anything that becomes dangerous to its creator
See Frankenstein in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(frăngˈkən-stīnˌ)
noun- An agency or creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator: “How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect?” (Milton Friedman).
- A monster having the appearance of a man.
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