(~s)
1.
In stories from Arabia and Persia, a ~ is a spirit which appears and disappears by magic and obeys the person who controls it.
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2.
If you say that the ~ is out of the bottle or that someone has let the ~ out of the bottle, you mean that something has happened which has made a great and permanent change in people’s lives, especially a bad change.
PHRASE: V inflects