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☆ snake oil

a liquid substance with no real medicinal value sold as a cure-all or nostrum, esp. in a medicine show

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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