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knockout drops

plural noun

chloral hydrate or any similar rapidly acting drug, especially one put in a drink secretly to make the drinker unconscious.

knockout drops

See Mickey Finn
slang.
a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction See also Mickey Finn

First recorded in 1890–95

But Frank Brooks wasn't full of knockout drops this time, and with a clear head he was no pushover.

Often by knockout drops he is reduced to insensibility and robbed.

I hope you don't want an innocent child of that age to know about knockout drops!

On the sidewalk I tried to figure out if there had been knockout drops in the coffee Natica had brewed for me.

He never saw a bludgeon in his life; and he scorned knockout drops.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

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