gateway : Idioms & Phrases


gateway drug

  • noun a habit-forming drug that is not addictive but its use may lead to the use of other addictive drugs
    • one college athlete recently called beer a gateway drug for young people
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gateway to the west

  • noun the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century
    St. Louis; Saint Louis.
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