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pipe dream definition

☆ pipe dream

Informal a fantastic idea, vain hope or plan, etc.

Etymology: in allusion to hallucinations experienced by opium smokers

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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