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Where does the expression “Pipe Dream” come from and What does Pipe Dream mean?

May 24, 2020 by Karen Hill

A dream full of illusions such as results from the smoking of an opium pipe, which was the source of the term “Pipe Dream”.

As American slang heard just about at the beginning of the present century, and apparently first appeared in print in Wallace Irwin’s Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum (1901):

To just one girl I’ve tuned my sad bazoo,
Stringing my pipe-dream off as it occurred.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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