- A series of connected events, activities, or experiences. 2. A series of securities transactions intended to create the impression of active trading so as to drive up prices artificially. 3. (Vulgar slang) A line or circle of three or more persons engaged in simultaneous sexual activity.
Examples:
- The daisy chain of lectures on art history encompassed the last 200 years.
- The SEC is on the alert for unscrupulous brokers who are engaging in daisy chains.
Origin: Sense 1 from mid-1800s; sense 3 from 1920s; sense 2 from 1980s.