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pill

1  [pil]
–noun
1. a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
2. something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured: Ingratitude is a bitter pill.
3. Slang. a tiresomely disagreeable person.
4. Sports Slang. a ball, esp. a baseball or golf ball.
5. the pill. birth-control pill.
6. pills, British Slang. billiards.
–verb (used with object)
7. to dose with pills.
8. to form or make into pills.
9. Slang. to blackball.
–verb (used without object)
10. to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater.
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Origin:
1375–1425; late ME pille < MLG, MD pille ≪ L pilula, dim. of pila ball; see -ule
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Cultural Dictionary

the Pill

A pill designed for contraception by preventing ovulation.

Note: The Pill was introduced in the 1950s, and its possible side effects are still being investigated. It nonetheless offered an ease of use and reliability of result that no other method of contraception had ever before supplied. In this way, it contributed greatly to the sexual revolution.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
pill

  1. n.
    the pilla birth control pill. (Always with the in this sense.) : The pill has really changed my life.
  2. n.
    a tobacco cigarette; a marijuana cigarette. : I'll trade you a pill for a match.
  3. n.
    a drug in capsule form. : The doctor prescribed these pills.
  4. n.
    a football. : Fred kicked the pill through the goal and won the game.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

pill 
1484, from M.Du. or M.L.G. pille, from L. pilula "pill," lit. "little ball," dim. of pila "ball." Slang meaning "boring person" is recorded from 1871. The pill "contraceptive pill" is from 1957. Pill-box "box for holding pills" is first attested 1730; as a small round concrete machine gun nest, it came into use in WWI. As a type of hat, attested from 1958.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pill
Pronunciation: 'pil
Function: noun
1 : medicine in a small rounded mass to be swallowed whole
2 oftencapitalized : a birth control pill—usually used with the
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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pill (pĭl)
n.

  1. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.

  2. An oral contraceptive.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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