ASK (n.): request. This is new but quite common in colloquial English. <> A pipe dream is something you want but that is unlikely to happen.

ASK (n.): request. This is new but quite common in colloquial English. <<“But it’s such a big ask, and such a pipe dream, that we really didn’t think it was going to happen,” Kappy tells Rolling Stone.>> A pipe dream is something you want but that is unlikely to happen.