A fork of Rural Dictionary
a cheap refreshing drink that comes in the form of a powder in a packet. Comes in many, many flavors. Just add water. Non-carbonated, the drink is promoted on TV by the walking Kool Aid pitcher. He holds a picture and a cup filled with the drink and says "Ohhhh yeahhh!" as he crashes through a wall. Jim Jones and his People's Temple cult in the Jonestown compound in Guyana commited mass suicide by drinking Kool Aid laced with cyanide.
Mom: Are you thirsty? I got some grape flavored Kool Aid.
Kids: Kool Aid! Kool Aid!
Tastes great!
Kool Aid! Kool Aid!
Can't wait!
Kool Aid! Kool Aid!
Tastes great!
Kool Aid! Kool Aid!
Can't wait!
Yaaayyyyy for Kool Aid!
"Kool-Aid" is what one drinks metaphorically, in the context of a political campaign, when faced with an eminent loss. The term was popularly referenced in the 1993 film, "The War Room" by George Stephonopolous when he states, "I'm afraid we're all going to have to drink Kool-Aid."
The term references the Jonestown massacre in 1978 when all of its inhabitants were directed to ingest cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Here's the new poll results, folks. Looks like, with 4 days left in the election, we're down by 17 points. Guess it's time for us to bust out the Kool-Aid.
A person, place, or thing that a person blindly adores despite blatant and obvious reason not to
John: OMFG! The new macbook air just came out! I don't care if it's underpowered, overpriced, only has 64 gig SDD and doesn't have a backlit keyboard. Wait hold on. I have to close out of this app on my iPhone since I don't have multitasking. Who cares? It still totally pwns android. Wait just give it a second. I must be holding the phone wrong or something. It totally pwns anything and EVERYTHING you have because APPLE IZ TEH BEST EVER!
Jill: Still drinking the Apple kool-aid I see.
Propaganda brewed for mass consumption.
E.g.: Bart drank the Bush administration's Kool-Aid about the war in Iraq, and got his ass pwned in Baghdad.