Copium

Quick meaning: Copium is a noun meaning Material used as a naive coping mechanism for facts one knows are not true.

Meaning

Material used as a naive coping mechanism for facts one knows are not true.

More Meanings

1. (Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) A metaphorical opiate taken in order to cope with a loss or disillusionment, often leading to one becoming detached from reality and in denial of their situation.

Example Sentences

We both know that's just copium for the fact you're losing.

Cryptobros have been huffing copious amounts of copium after yesterday's devastating Bitcoin crash.

Some of this is simply dead ender-claptrap: straw-grasping and copium for Trumpists who are struggling to assimilate the new reality. But some of it is racist conspiracy theory, and Sky's new business model means that Australia is effectively exporting it.

If the image of Democratic defeat is of that protester screaming no, the image of MAGA humiliation is of Pepe the Frog or Trump himself hooked up to an oxygen machine that's instead providing him with copium, watching the rare and humiliating end of a one-term president.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cope, dope, chippy, pill, pipe-hitter, chemmie.

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