Country Dictionary

Going along with what a crowd desires. Often used when a person changes positions on a topic.

Dave got a haircut and a new suit. Looks like his company is making him drink the kool-aid.

Assimilate into the upper eschelons of corporate culture, at the expense of your soul.

Jack is really trying to get ahead at work. He doesn't hang out with the rest of the slackers, any more. I think he's been drinking 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.

Comes from a religious mass suicide from poisoned kool-aid. When people are going to a meeting of a controversial group, they are sometimes warned not to drink the kool-aid

Oh, you're becoming a scientologist? That's ok, just don't drink the kool-aid.

A idiomatic phrase that refers to an unsubstantiated but strongly argued opinion that is rejected outright as being held by a person or persons that is under the effect of a hallucinogenic drug. Kool-Aid spiked with LSD is the root from where this late 1960’s early 1970’s phrase originated.

If you think that the president will be impeached because of his inappropriate activities with women, then you’ve been drinking the kool-aid.

One specific form of the more general term drink the kool-aid. Please refer to that definition for a more complete understanding.

"Don't drink the Kool-Aid"

To engage in intimate relations with someone else's significant other.

Dog! Why are you trying to drink my kool-aid?!