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      [Noun]  | "dead-cat bounce" 


      1: a brief and insignificant recovery (as of stock prices) after a steep decline


      Origin: 1985 ;

       From the facetious notion that even a dead cat would bounce slightly if dropped from a sufficient height;

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       [ "dead cat bounce" ]

      1: Wall Street expression describing the phenomenon of a stock or share bottoming out to near zero and then recovering with a sharp buying spree from bargain hunters: the notion being that even a dead cat will bounce if dropped from a high-enough point.

        * e.g.,  ... Your stock prices going up is no more than a dead-cat bounce: it doesn't have the juice to stay up. 

       [ "dead cat bounce" ]

      1: Investor slang; a brief recovery in the price of a falling stock. Term is derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height."

        * e.g.,  ... I tried to buy GX on the dead cat bounce but got burned. 

       [ "dead cat bounce" ]

      1: hehe dead cat go boing boing

        * e.g.,  ... dead cat bounce hehe 

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