Pill

/pɪl/ · noun

Meaning

(broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication..

Definitions by Sense

1. (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
2. (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
3. Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
4. (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
5. (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
6. (textiles) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.
7. (baseball slang) A baseball.
8. (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).

Example Sentences

Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.

I'm tearing down your brooder house / 'Cause now I've got the pill

Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.

"It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill."

You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [...] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.

Instead, I saw a woman in her mid-fifties, who was a real pill; while all the others had managed a decent “So pleased,” or even a plain “Hello,” Ginger just inclined her head, as if she was doing a Queen Mary imitation.

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• pills
• p1ll
• pilling
• pilled

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