magic bullet

1. 1.

   a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease

   “there is no magic bullet against cancer”

   Broaderremedy

   drug

Questions about magic bullet

What does magic bullet mean?

magic bullet means "a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease".

Is magic bullet a common word?

magic bullet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.