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pill
noun- any central nervous system stimulant US
- — American Speech, p. 281, December 1966: “More carnie talk from the west coast”
- a tablet of MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy UK
A generic usage. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 88, 1996
- Es are often referred to simply as “pills". — Macfarlane, Macfarlane and Robson, The User, p. 75, 1996
- the weekly anti-malaria pill taken by US troops in Vietnam US
Playing on the birth control pill, then very much in vogue back home. - — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 167, 1991
- a pellet of opium US
- Then he held the pipe bowl close to the top of his special lamp and stuck the pill on the edge of the bowl, drawing the yen hok round and round to stretch the opium[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 98, 1946
- a cigarette UK, 1914
- I leaned back again and lit another pill. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 54, 1953
- a rugby ball NEW ZEALAND
- — Sonya Plowman, Great Kiwi Slang, p. 139, 2002
- in pool, a small tally ball used as a scoring device US
- — Mike Shamus, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 170, 1993
- an unpleasant person UK, 1871
- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 223, 1998
▶ the pill- the contraceptive pill UK, 1957
Not in practical currency until the early 1960s. - The Pill, the cap and the I.U.D. are equally becoming very popular in this country after great success in Europe. — Jules Griffon, Orgies American Style, p. 25, 1967
- The pill, of course, is the big new development in the ‘60s. — Joe David Brown, Sex in the ‘60s, p. 18, 1968
- All I can say is Thank God for the pill! — Screw, p. 7, 12 January 1970
- I didn’t always use protection and, I sometimes forgot to take the Pill. — Mixmag, p. 99, February 2002
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