MAGIC BULLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magic bullet mean? 

• MAGIC BULLET (noun)
  The noun MAGIC BULLET has 1 sense:

1. a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease

  Familiarity information: MAGIC BULLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGIC BULLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

there is no magic bullet against cancer

Hypernyms ("magic bullet" is a kind of...):

curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic (a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain)

Domain category:

drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)

 Context examples 

"To put it simply, all evidence indicates that there is no magic bullet," Dr. Eric Larson wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

(Study: There's No Fail-safe Way to Prevent Dementia, VOA)