n. 1. An agency or creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator: "How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect?" (Milton Friedman). 2. A monster having the appearance of a man. [From Frankenstein, the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.] |
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