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noun
A ghost or apparition.
Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
A test object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue.
Short for phantom power
adj
Illusive.
[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
Fictitious or nonexistent.
a phantom limb
noun
Nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by U.S. marines in Vietnam.
A Rolls-Royce Phantom automobile.
Paul pulled out the Phantom; niggas can't stand it but them hoes gonna come out.