daisy chainn.
1. A chain of daisies sewn or fastened together, made by children in play.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others
spurc1450
cock1608
turnel1621
corala1625
house of cardsa1625
Jack-in-the-box1659
(Prince) Rupert's Drops1662
sucker1681
whirligig1686
playbook1694
card house1733
snapper1788
card castle1792
Aaron's bells?1795
Noah's Ark1807
Jacob's ladder1820
cat-stairs1825
daisy chain1841
beanbag1861
playboat1865
piñata1868
teething ring1872
weet-weet1878
tumble-over1883
water cracker1887
jumping-bean1889
play money1894
serpentin1894
comforter1898
pacifier1901
dummy1903
bubble water1904
yo-yo1915
paper airplane1921
snowstorm1926
titty1927
teaser1935
Slinky1948
teether1949
Mr Potato Head1952
squeeze toy1954
Frisbee1957
mobile1957
chew toy1959
water-rocket1961
Crazy Foam1965
playshop1967
war toy1973
waterball1974
pull-along1976
transformer1984
Aerobie1985
1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning i. ix I never walk out in the fields, nor make daisy-chains.
1997 H. Clegg & M. Larom Making Wire Jewelry xiv. 67/1 You'll be surprised at how easy it is to make, not unlike stringing a fresh daisy chain on a summer afternoon.
2. figurative and transferred.
a. (esp. in services' contexts: see quots.).
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession
row?1510
processiona1564
sequencea1575
succession1579
pomp1595
suite1597
rosary1604
sequel1615
series1618
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success1632
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string1713
chain1791
course1828
serie1840
daisy chain1856
nexus1858
catena1862
litany1961
1856 C. 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.
1950 V. 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.
1959 Times 18 June (Queen in Canada Suppl.) 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.
1961 Flight 80 996/1 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).
1979 Times 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.
1986 Times 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.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [noun] > involving more than two people
gang-shag1927
threesome1936
daisy chain1941
gang-banging1949
gang-bang1950
troilism1951
clusterfuck1965
three-way1967
1941 G. 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.
1951 S. 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 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) i. 87 You have to do more than take a little gas, or slash the wrists. Pot? Zero! Daisy chains? Nothing! Debauchery? A museum word.
1972 F. 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.
1977 E. 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.
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c. Commerce. A group of dealers who agree to buy and sell a particular commodity (originally crude oil, esp. in a single shipment) amongst themselves, thereby inflating the price at which it is eventually sold to an outside buyer.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > syndicate, pool, or association
Open Board1862
option pool1889
concert party1973
daisy chain1982
1982 J. M. Rosenberg Dict. Banking & Finance 155/1 Daisy chains, oil sale overcharges through transactions designed primarily to increase the price of crude oil.
1984 Fortune 23 Jan. 46/1 Arco..allegedly fed oil into a Texas ‘daisy chain’ that further enriched Rich's trading company.
1986 Times 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.
1990 Independent on Sunday 11 Feb. (Business section) 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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