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PIPE DREAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pipe dream mean?
• PIPE DREAM (noun)
The noun PIPE DREAM has 1 sense:
1. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
Familiarity information: PIPE DREAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
dream; pipe dream
Context example:
I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe
Hypernyms ("pipe dream" is a kind of...):
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