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daisy chain
1. A chain of daisies sewed or fastened together, made by children in play.
1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. i. ix, I never walk out in the fields, nor make *daisy-chains.
2. fig. and transf.
a. (esp. in services' contexts: see quots.).
1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xxv. 641 He called her [sc. his dead daughter] the first link of his Daisy Chain drawn up out of sight. 1950V. Peniakoff Private Army v. 134 We used a device christened the ‘daisy chain’, made from gun-cotton primers threaded on a five-foot length of prima cord... Five primers went to each daisy chain spaced out and held in place by knots in the cord. 1959Times (Queen in Canada Suppl.) 18 June p. xiii/3 It is connected with Edmonton, Alberta, by..the Northwest Staging Route, a daisy chain of airfields, built during the war between interior Alaska and Canada. 1961Flight LXXX. 996/1 If..four loads are to be dropped in a stick, the first is extracted by a parachute stowed on the floor sill and released by the dropping officer, whilst loads 2, 3 and 4 are extracted by parachutes carried by and released from loads 1, 2 and 3 (this technique is now well known as the ‘daisy-chain’ system). 1979Times 15 Dec. 3/6 A collision known in Army slang as a ‘daisy chain’... One man's parachute ‘stole’ the air from his comrade's, both canopies deflated and the men plunged..to their deaths. 1986Times 19 Feb. 17/3 Can..order be brought to the daisy chain market? The daisy chain takes its name from the string of traders who sell or buy from each other on paper a cargo of Brent crude.
b. Sexual activity involving three or more persons. slang.
1941G. Legman in G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. 1162 Daisy-chain, a spintry; a group of more than two persons—heterosexual, homosexual, or both—linked together in simultaneous sexual intercourse of any kind or combination of kinds... A person participating in a spintry is termed a daisy-chainer. 1951S. Longstreet Pedlocks II. v. 93 The screened, discreet box at the Comique led to an unbelievably evil circus at the Casino (‘Oh, them daisy chains,’ said Condon). 1964[see pot n.5 1]. 1972F. Warner Maquettes 12 Bride One. Will you give us a baby? Groom. One between two. A Siamese Solomon. Bride Two. We call it a daisy-chain sandwich, in the best wife-swapping circles. 1977E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) xvii. 164 In the frantic search for novelty..a group sex activity called the daisy chain has been invented.
Add:[2.] c. Comm. A group of dealers who agree to buy and sell a particular commodity (orig. crude oil, esp. in a single shipment) amongst themselves, thereby inflating the price at which it is eventually sold to an outside buyer.
1982J. M. Rosenberg Dict. Banking & Finance 155/1 Daisy chains, oil sale overcharges through transactions designed primarily to increase the price of crude oil. 1984Fortune 23 Jan. 46/1 Arco..allegedly fed oil into a Texas ‘daisy chain’ that further enriched Rich's trading company. 1986Times 19 Feb. 17/3 Can..order be brought to the daisy chain market? The daisy chain takes its name from the string of traders who sell or buy from each other on paper a cargo of Brent crude. 1990Independent on Sunday 11 Feb. (Business Suppl.) 3/5 Lincoln traded the bonds with other members of the daisy chain at artificial and escalating prices which enabled both sides of the deal to realise unreal and improper profits, the prosecution said. |