daisy chain


noun
  1. a string of daisies linked together to form a chain.

  2. such a chain used as a garland or carried on festive days by a group of women college students.

  1. a series of interconnected or related things or events: a daisy chain of legislative delays and stalemates.

  2. Slang. a group sexual activity in which the participants serve as active and passive partners to different people simultaneously.

  3. Commerce. a series of transactions designed to create the appearance of active trading, as in a particular stock, in order to manipulate the price.

Origin of daisy chain

1
First recorded in 1835–45

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How to use daisy chain in a sentence

  • Come to think of it, Spink, my favorite occupation at this moment would be making daisy-chains or oak-wreaths.

    Out of the Air | Inez Haynes Irwin
  • Nurse Mary always took thread and a needle in her pocket; these were for the making of daisy-chains, and, oh!

  • The hero goes up through the roof and alights on the bank of a stream at the feet of his lady love, who is making daisy chains.

    The Man in Lower Ten | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • A little irritably—for I didn't want to leave the daisy-chains—I looked round for the lady, but she wasn't there.

    Dimbie and I--and Amelia | Mabel Barnes-Grundy
  • By the bye, you should get at your daisy chains in that way.

British Dictionary definitions for daisy chain

daisy chain

noun
  1. a garland made, esp by children, by threading daisies together

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Other Idioms and Phrases with daisy chain

daisy chain

A series of connected events, activities, or experiences. For example, The daisy chain of lectures on art history encompassed the last 200 years. This metaphorical term alludes to a string of the flowers linked together. [Mid-1800s]

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