▸nouninformala medicine or other remedy with advanced or highly specific properties:
there's no magic bullet, and we should just try to eat as varied and well-balanced a diet as possible.
– ORIGIN early 20th century: from magic + bullet, translating GermanZauberkugel, used by the medical scientist Paul Ehrlich. There are several stories in German folklore that feature magical bullets of supernatural accuracy.
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