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pep pill
noun
a central nervous system stimulant in a tablet form US, 1937
A deceptive yet accurate euphemism that persisted for several decades, especially with students.- Pep pills make you feel good. — Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy, p. 45, 1963
- The basic drug involved is some for of the amphetamines, or “pep pills,” and they are dangerous. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 5, 13 January 1963
- There are those who claim the outlaws don’t need food because they get all their energy from pep pills. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, p. 175, 1966
- Amphetamine, that group of drugs which are called pep pills by squares. They are also called psychic energizers. — Ruth Bronsteen, The Hippy’s Handbook, p. 12, 1967
- “ You know where I buy pep peels?” The Mexican laborer says, inquiring of the coffee-sipping dealers in the House of Do-Nuts on Stanyon Street. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 31, 1967
- Pep pills and all variation of the benzedrine formulae present no valid excuse for continued existence. — The San Francisco Oracle, 1967
- Have reached midway ploint in new novel, full of pep pills and booze I then sat down and wrote you that silly postcard. — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 495, 30 March 1967: Letter to John Clellon Holmes
- Greenies are pep pills–dextroamphetamine sulphate–and a lot of baseball players couldn’t function without them. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 80, 1970
- And heh says, “Yeah, it’s just a pep pill.” So he gives me the benny [Benzedrine] and he says, “You’ll like them.” — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 66, 1972
- [S]cores of Negro youth gangs on pep pills were stealing cars[.] — James Ellroy, Blood on the Moon, p. 28, 1984
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