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drink the kool-aid

To make a wholehearted, unconditional commitment (to some group, or idea, or plan) in contrast to choosing an alternative. It emphasizes a resolute decision (good or bad) in response to a choice.

This is a reference to the "electric Kool-Aid acid tests," which were LSD parties held in the San Francisco Bay area in the mid 1960's. Someone who was willing to drink the LSD-laced Kool-Aid had, symbolically, made a choice to join (if only for a few hours) a counterculture that stood against conventional society. Once you take acid, you're committed -- the trip lasts for hours and you can't cut it short or change your mind. Once you've drunk the kool-aid, you're firmly committed.

IMHO it is not about suicide: kool-aid isn't a symbol for poison.
Coach got his players to drink the kool-aid.

I really like Macintosh computers; I've totally drunk the Apple kool-aid.

That berserk guy who tried to kill people at the Tides Foundation really had drunk the kool-aid that the right-wing media were serving.
by LandruBek May 1, 2011
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Kool Aid Surprise

When you bust a girl's vaginal walls out, and then yell, "Oh, Yeeeeeah!"
And then I was fucking this chick and decided to give her the old Kool Aid Surprise, so I busted through her vaginal wall into whatever the fuck is in there, and then I was all like, "Oh yeeeeeeeeah!"
by Bobo Debauchery June 9, 2009
mugGet the Kool Aid Surprisemug.

kool-aid lips

Overuse of dark red or purple lipstick, so that it appears as though the wearer has been drinking large amounts of Kool-Aid.
Have you seen The Craft? That one girl's got a serious case of kool-aid lips.
by pellonpaa November 14, 2011
mugGet the kool-aid lipsmug.

Kool Aid Lemonade

When someone pees into your mouth while you and the person peeing are wearing nothing.
by Lemon Twisty Boy February 3, 2004
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Gray Kool-Aid

Something bland and unexciting. Flavorless.
Man, that movie was so Gray Kool-Aid
by Sheik790 February 7, 2004
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kool-aid mustache

when a man eats out a woman when she is on her period and gets blood on his upper lip
when mike was eating out alaina he came up with a kool-aid mustache.
by J. Stizz January 18, 2008
mugGet the kool-aid mustachemug.

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