drug

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue (“cure, pharmaceutical product”), from Old French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”), of Germanic origin, 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 Saxon drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugijaz (“dry”). Cognate with English dry, German trocken (“dry”). See also droog.

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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.
    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. (pharmacology) A substance, sometimes 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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medicine — see medicine
affecting the central nervous system
a substance that alters the way the mind or body works
an illegal drug
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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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to administer intoxicating drugs
to add intoxicating drugs to something
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[edit] Etymology 2

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

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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.
[edit] Usage notes
  • 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] Romanian

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drug m. (plural drugi)

  1. pole, stick

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drug n. (plural druguri)

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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

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  • IPA: /drûːɡ/

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drȗg m. (Cyrillic spelling дру̑г)

  1. friend
  2. comrade

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    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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drug (not comparable)

  1. other
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