Definitions | domino effect |
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- the effect of one event setting off a chain of similar events
- (politics) the theory that, if Vietnam fell to communism, it would be followed by Cambodia and Laos etc
Etymology: by analogy with a row of dominoes in which the fall of one leads to a cascade of falling pieces
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