dinosaur wine
n.— «Much of the money made in the oil business has been raked in by companies that had no direct interest in dinosaur wine.» —“Gates may have last laugh in break-up” by Bill Schadewald Triangle Business Journal (Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina) May 29, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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