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SACRED COW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sacred cow mean?
• SACRED COW (noun)
The noun SACRED COW has 1 sense:
1. a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism
Familiarity information: SACRED COW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sacred cow" is a kind of...):
important person; influential person; personage (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)
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