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- pill⇄expr. pills, (British Slang.) billiards.
Ex. We can play pills then till lunch, you know (Westminster Gazette). - pill⇄expr. sugar (or sweeten) the pill, to cause the unpleasant to seem more agreeable.
Ex. Although the decision may be a disappointment, the pill is sweetened by the forecast of a higher dividend for next year (London Times). - pill⇄expr. the pill, an oral contraceptive for women.
Ex. 85 percent of all the patients had shifted to using the two most effective family planning methods--the pill and the intrauterine device (New York Times). - pill⇄fertility drug orpill
a drug in tablet form consisting of synthesized hormones that release ova in women who do not ovulate normally. Fertility drugs have sometimes caused multiple births.
Ex. Fertility drugs are useful when infertility is cau - pill⇄noun 1. medicine made up into a small, solid mass to be swallowed whole, now usually round and flattened or in capsule form.
Ex. The pill stuck in his throat but an extra drink of water washed it down.
2. (Figurative.) something disagreeable - pill⇄pill (1), noun, verb.
- pill⇄pill (2), transitive verb.
1. (Archaic.) to rob, plunder, or pillage (a person or country).
2. (Archaic or Dialect.) to peel.
3. (Obsolete.)
a. to remove the hair from; make bald.
b. to remove (hair). - pill⇄v.i. (Obsolete.) to pillage; rob; plunder.
- pill⇄v.i. to form small fuzzy balls of fibers on certain knitted fabrics, especially fabrics made from spun nylon yarn or wool.
Ex. a sweater that pills. - pill⇄v.t. 1. to treat or dose with pills.
2. (Slang.) to reject by ballot; blackball.