Usually means: Entertainment used to pacify masses.
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  1. bread and circuses: Merriam-Webster
  2. bread and circuses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bread and circuses: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bread and circuses: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bread and circuses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bread and circuses: Wiktionary
  7. bread and circuses: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. bread and circuses: Dictionary.com
  9. Bread and Circuses (Colosseum album), Bread and Circuses (TOS episode), Bread and Circuses (The View album), Bread and Circuses, Bread and circuses (disambiguation), Bread and circuses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. bread and circuses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bread and circuses: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (bread and circuses)

noun:  (idiomatic) Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if intended to placate the people.
noun:  (by extension) Grand spectacles staged or statements made to distract and pacify people.

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