1. Poudre que les charlatans débitaient comme guérissant toute sorte de maux.
2. (Figuré) Fausse solution miracle.
3. La poudre de perlimpinpin est un remède prétendument miraculeux mais totalement inefficace.
4. [noun] A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain.
5. [noun] A type of 19th-century patent medicine sold in the United States that claimed to contain snake fat, supposedly a Native American remedy for various ailments.
6. [noun] (idiomatic) A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
7. [noun] (idiomatic) Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality.
8. [verb] (slang) To dupe or con.
