domino : Idioms & Phrases

• noun United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)
  Antoine Domino; Domino.
  

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• noun the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)
  

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• noun the political theory that if one nation comes under communist control then neighboring nations will also come under communist control
  

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• . A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a Western orientation was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge. Used by some as a justification for American involvement in the Vietnam war, 1964-1972.

Webster 1913

• . To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. Derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.

Webster 1913

• noun United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)
  Antoine Domino; Domino.
  

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