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snake oil

fraudulent medication
Thing locution Q301502
snake oil
Clark Stanley · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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snake oil

Summary

snake oil is a locution[1]. It draws 767 Wikipedia views per month (locution category, ranking #2 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • snake oil's image is recorded as Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment.png[3].
  • snake oil's instance of is recorded as locution[4].
  • snake oil's Commons category is recorded as Snake oil[5].
  • snake oil's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-Madehub-Poudre de perlimpinpin.wav[6].
  • snake oil's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/078cc[7].
  • snake oil's Quora topic ID is recorded as Snake-Oil[8].
  • snake oil's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Concept", "SnakeOil::43xf2"][9].
  • snake oil's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778940869[10].

Why It Matters

snake oil draws 767 Wikipedia views per month (locution category, ranking #2 of 10).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). snake oil. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/snake-oil
MLA “snake oil.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/snake-oil.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_snake-oil_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{snake oil}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/snake-oil}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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