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drink the Kool Aid

drink the Kool Aid is the alternative form of drink the Kool-Aid.

Meaning of drink the Kool-Aid

Verb

drink the Kool-Aid (third-person singular simple present drinks the Kool-Aid, present participle drinking the Kool-Aid, simple past drank the Kool-Aid, past participle drunk the Kool-Aid)

  1. (US, colloquial) To come under the influence of a leader, organization, or movement to the point of believing uncritically in an espoused idea or ideology.
    • Outside the Convention Center, meanwhile, protesters on either side of police barricades waved signs, chanted, sang songs and heckled people walking inside to attend the fundraiser. Signs included "Limp Wrists Make Strong Fists," "I'd Rather Be Dead Than Born Again" and "Abort the Moral Majority."...1982 April 24, Claude Peck, “Demo Greets Falwell During Visit to Minneapolis”, in Gay Community News, page 3

Forms of drink the Kool Aid

third-person singular presentdrinks the Kool Aid
present participledrinking the Kool Aid
pastdrank the Kool Aid
past participledrunk the Kool Aid

Questions about drink the Kool Aid

What is drink the Kool Aid the alternative form of?
Drink the Kool Aid is the alternative form of drink the Kool-Aid.

Words near drink the Kool Aid in the dictionary

  1. drink shops
  2. drink someone's bathwater
  3. drink something like lemonade
  4. drink table
  5. drink tables
  6. drink the Kool Aid
  7. drink the Kool-Aid
  8. drink to
  9. drink under
  10. drink under the table
  11. drink up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drink the Kool Aid (page history and authors); drink the Kool-Aid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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