SNAKEOIL

Snake oil

Snake oil is an expression that originally referred to fraudulent health products or unproven medicine but has come to refer to any product with questionable or unverifiable quality or benefit. By extension, a snake oil salesman is someone who knowingly sells fraudulent goods or who is himself or herself a fraud, quack, charlatan, and the like.

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snake oil

Noun

  1. A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain.
  2. A type of 19th century patent medicine sold in the United States that claimed to contain snake fat, supposedly a Native American remedy for various ailments.
  3. A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
  4. Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality.


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