Phantom
adj, noun, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 A ghost or apparition. countable, uncountable
- 2 Nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by U.S. marines in Vietnam.
- 3 something existing in perception only wordnet
- 4 Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion. countable, uncountable
- 5 A Rolls-Royce Phantom automobile.
"Paul pulled out the Phantom; niggas can't stand it but them hoes gonna come out."
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- 6 a ghostly appearing figure wordnet
- 7 A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing. countable, uncountable
- 8 A test object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue. countable, uncountable
- 9 Short for phantom power abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, uncountable
- 1 Illusive. not-comparable
"[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”"
- 2 Fictitious or nonexistent. not-comparable
"a phantom limb"
- 1 something apparently sensed but having no physical reality wordnet
Example
More examples"I caught a glimpse of the phantom sitting behind the wheel."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.