Definition of "granfalloon" [granfalloon]

• A group of two or more people who imagine or are manipulated to believe they share a connection based on some circumstance of little or no real significance. (noun)

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• "Re: [jennifer rose] "A granfalloon is a proud and meaningless association of human beings.""
• "The karass is that group of friends from college who have helped one another's careers in a hundred subtle ways over the years; the granfalloon is the marketing department at your firm, where everyone has a meticulously defined place on the org chart but nothing ever gets done."
• "The social cohesion promoted by paying taxes to and receiving benefit checks from the same government agency as millions of other strangers is spurious, however — an example of the "granfalloon," Kurt Vonnegut's term for"