drug

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[edit] English

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From French drogue, probably from Dutch droog; akin to English dry; thus origin, “dry substance”, “herbs”, “plants”, or “wares”.

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Singular
drug

Plural
drugs

drug (plural drugs)

  1. (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
  2. (pharmacology) A substance, often addictive, which affects the central nervous system.
  3. A chemical or substance, not necessarily for medical purposes, which alters the way the mind or body works.
  4. A substance, especially one which is illegal, ingested for recreational use.
    • 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.
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Infinitive
to drug

Third person singular
drugs

Simple past
drugged

Past participle
drugged

Present participle
drugging

to 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.
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Germanic ablaut formation, cognate to German trug.

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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.
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  • 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.
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[edit] Bosnian

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

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drȗg m.

  1. friend
  2. comrade (term of address in the Communist party and elsewhere 1945 – 1990)

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[edit] Croatian

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

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drȗg m.

  1. friend
  2. comrade (term of address in the Communist party and elsewhere 1945 – 1990)

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Rarely used in its original meaning friend after 1990.


[edit] Romanian

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drug m. (plural drugi)

  1. pole, stick

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drug n. (plural druguri)


[edit] Serbian

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

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drȗg m. (Cyrillic spelling друг)

  1. friend
  2. comrade (term of address in the Communist party and elsewhere 1945 – 1990)

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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

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drȗg m. (Cyrillic spelling: дру̑г)

  1. friend
  2. comrade

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drug (not comparable)

  1. other