painkiller

painkiller

slang Alcohol or an alcoholic drink. The bar always has a couple of regulars propping up the bar clutching a bottle of painkiller.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

painkiller

n. liquor. (see also feeling no pain.) Pass that bottle of painkiller over here. My throat hurts.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • bar
  • belly up to the bar
  • a quick one
  • quick one
  • quick one, a
  • quickie
  • piss factory
  • Katie
  • Katie bar the door
  • Katie, bar the door
References in periodicals archive
The tighter plan restrictions on opioid painkillers were part of a White House briefing on drug policy held Monday.
Stuart Gale, chief pharmacist at oxfordonlinepharmacy.co.uk, explains everything you need to know about the four main pbw painkillers you can buy over the counter without a prescription.
Although considerably lower-risk than illegal street opioids like heroin, an overdose of prescription painkillers can still kill the user.
The use of opioid painkillers such as morphine and fentanyl has risen more than 60 per cent in a decade.
I have taken painkillers for things like period pain and, more recently, muscle pain for Dancing on Ice.
A There is a phenomenon called "medication-overuse headaches" (MOH), which can occur if a person takes painkillers more than two or three times a week.
Altogether, they had information on nearly 1.4 million diclofenac users, 3.9 million ibuprofen users, 292, 000 naproxen users, 765, 00 paracetamol users, and 1.3 million people not on any of these painkillers.
Store painkillers securely There are various types of overthe-counter painkillers that include:
16 ( ANI ): Doctors have always advised caution against consuming painkillers during pregnancy due to various reasons.
The study revealed that when a patient was prescribed an opioid painkiller medication, the likelihood that they would engage in abuse of that substance increased by 20% for each additional week of taking the medication.
JANE TYLER jane.tyler@trinitymirror.com A FACTORY worker died when he accidentally took a massive overdose of a prescription-only painkiller for his chronic backache.
Birmingham Coroner's Court was told a post-mortem found he had extremely high levels of Tramadol - a very powerful prescription-only painkiller - in his system after he was found dead in bed by his partner on December 1 Coroner Emma Brown recorded a conclusion of accidental death.
by Agence France-PresseThe strong painkiller is tightly controlled in Egypt where it is often abused as a recreational drug.
Plummer had some 300 painkiller tablets in her suitcase when she flew into Egypt Oct.
Released in December and based on responses from adults who took painkillers for two months or more in the previous two years for issues other than cancer or terminal illness, the Survey of Long-Term Prescription Painkiller Users and Their Household Members found that 44 percent began taking the pills for chronic pain, 25 percent for pain after surgery and 25 percent for pain following an accident or injury.