daisy chain

noun

1. a string of daisies linked together to form a chain.
2. such a chain used as a garland or carried on festive days by a group of women college students.
3. a series of interconnected or related things or events:

   a daisy chain of legislative delays and stalemates.

4. Slang. a group sexual activity in which the participants serve as active and passive partners to different people simultaneously.
5. Commerce. a series of transactions designed to create the appearance of active trading, as in a particular stock, in order to manipulate the price.

daisy chain

noun

1. a garland made, esp by children, by threading daisies together

Word History and Origins

Origin of daisy chain¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

He scurried back below deck to grab boxes of ammunition and joined a daisy chain of sailors feeding shells to an anti-aircraft gun up above.

From Washington Times

He scurried back below deck to grab boxes of ammunition and joined a daisy chain of sailors feeding shells to an anti-aircraft gun up above.

From Seattle Times

Comer is also scrutinizing a daisy chain of transactions beyond those involving Americore.

From Seattle Times

In the early 2000s, in an effort to increase the supply of organs from living donors, Montgomery performed some of the first “domino”-paired kidney transplants in the U.S., in which multiple donors and recipients provide and receive organs in a kind of surgical daisy chain.

From Scientific American

Where do we put him in the GOP’s daisy chain of weakness?

From Slate