Usually means: Impossibility expressed as rhetorical hyperbole.
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  3. adynaton: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adynaton)

noun:  (rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility; an instance of such hyperbole.

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