drug

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • (UK, US) IPA: /dɹʌɡ/, [dɹʌɡ], [d͡ʒɹʌɡ]
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  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue (“cure, pharmaceutical product”), from Old French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were wontedly dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).

Noun [edit]

drug (plural drugs)

  1. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
    Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.
    The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (pharmacology) A substance, sometimes addictive, which affects the central nervous system.
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A chemical or substance, not necessarily for medical purposes, which alters the way the mind or body works.
  4. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
    • 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial 2005 edition, p. 3,
      We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
    • March 1991, unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN, page 70
      You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot.
    • 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, Chronic Discontent Books, ISBN 0976705605, page 19
      The only thing working against the poor Drug Abuse Resistance Officer is high-school students. ... He'd offer his simple lesson: Drugs are bad, people who use drugs are bad, and abstinence is the only answer.
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Usage notes [edit]
  • Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from drug (noun)
Translations [edit]
substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose — see medicine
substance, sometimes addictive, affecting the central nervous system
a substance that alters the way the mind or body works
psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one

Verb [edit]

drug (third-person singular simple present drugs, present participle drugging, simple past and past participle drugged)

  1. (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
    She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.
  2. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
    She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
  3. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Translations [edit]
to administer intoxicating drugs
to add intoxicating drugs to something
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Etymology 2 [edit]

Germanic ablaut formation, cognate with Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog, Old English drōg.

Verb [edit]

drug

  1. (Southern US) simple past tense and past participle of drag
    You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
Usage notes [edit]
  • Random House says that drug is "nonstandard" as the past tense of drag. Merriam-Webster once ruled that drug in this construction was "illiterate" but have since upgraded it to "dialect". The lexicographers of New World, American Heritage, and Oxford make no mention of this word.

References [edit]

Romanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Serbo-Croatian drug.

Noun [edit]

drug m (plural drugi)

  1. pole, stick

Noun [edit]

drug n (plural druguri)

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Serbo-Croatian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Slavic *drugъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrowgʰos.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /drûːɡ/

Noun [edit]

drȗg m (Cyrillic spelling дру̑г)

  1. friend
  2. comrade

Declension [edit]

    declension of drug
singular plural
nominative drȗg drȕgovi / drȗzi
genitive druga drugova / druga
dative drugu drugovima / druzima
accusative druga drugove / druge
vocative drȗže drugovi / druzi
locative drugu drugovima / druzima
instrumental drugom drugovima / druzima

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Slovene [edit]

Adjective [edit]

drug (not comparable)

  1. other, another, different

Declension [edit]

Declension of drug (hard)
singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative drug ind
drugi def		 druga drugo
accusative nominativeinan or genitiveanim drugo drugo
genitive drugega druge drugega
dative drugemu drugi drugemu
locative drugem drugi drugem
instrumental drugim drugo drugim
dual
masculine feminine neuter
nominative druga drugi drugi
accusative druga drugi drugi
genitive drugih drugih drugih
dative drugima drugima drugima
locative drugih drugih drugih
instrumental drugima drugima drugima
plural
masculine feminine neuter
nominative drugi druge druga
accusative druge druge druga
genitive drugih drugih drugih
dative drugim drugim drugim
locative drugih drugih drugih
instrumental drugimi drugimi drugimi
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