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snake_oil
has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless
Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)The medical device pirate of today , of_course , is a far more sophisticated operator than his predecessor of yesteryear - the gallus snapping hawker of snake_oil and other patent_medicines . |
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[ noun ] communication (writen or spoken) intended to deceive
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