drug

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Etymology

Template:F. drogue, probably from Template:D. droog; akin to English dry; thus origin, "dry substance", "herbs", "plants", or "wares".

Noun

drug (plural drugs)

1. Template:pharmacology Substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
2. Template:pharmacology A substance, often addictive, which affects the central nervous system.
3. A chemical or substance, not necessarily for medical purposes, that alters the way the mind or body works.
4. A drug, especially illegal, taken for recreational use.
   • 1971: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 3)

Translations

treatment for an illness (1)

(See translations at medicine)

affecting the central nervous system (2)

• Finnish: huume, huumausaine
• French: drogue Template:f
• German: Droge Template:f, Rauschgift Template:n, Rauschmittel Template:n
• Greek ναρκωτικό (narkotikó)
• Hebrew: Template:he-translation
• Hungarian: kábítószer
• Japanese: 麻薬 (まやく, mayaku)
• Korean: 마약 [麻藥] (mayak)
• Kurdish: tilyak Template:f, narkotîk Template:f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: narkotikum Template:n, rusmiddel Template:n
• Persian: Template:FAchar (dâru)
• Polish: narkotyk
• Slovak: droga Template:f, narkotikum Template:n
• Spanish: droga Template:f
• Swedish: drog
• Telugu: మత్తుమందు (mattumaMdu)

a substance that alters the way the mind or body works (3)

• Hebrew: Template:he-translation
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

an illegal drug

• Hebrew: Template:he-translation
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Spanish: droga Template:f (2)
• (deprecated template usage) Turkish: uyusturucu ilacTemplate:f, narkotîk Template:f

Derived terms

• do drugs
• drug on the market
• drugstore
• small molecule drug

Verb

drug (third-person singular simple present drug, present participle g, simple past and past participle ed)

1. Template: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. Template:transitive To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

   She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.

Translations

to adminster intoxicating drugs

• Finnish: huumata
• Hebrew: Template:he-translation
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: drogar

to add intoxicating drugs to something

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

drug

1. Template:US Template:past of

   You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.

Usage notes

In British English, this is incorrect; the correct past tense of drag is dragged.

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

“drug”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Bosnian

Noun

drug :, (plural: drugovi)

1. A male friend.

   Petar je moj drug. (Peter is my friend.)

2. A comrade, especially among Partisans during World War II.

   Drug Valter je raznio voz. (Comrade Valter blew up the train.)

3. Used to address people, especially during communism in Yugoslavia.

   Druže nastavniče, kada nam počinje čas? (Comrade teacher, when will our class begin?)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	drug	drugovi
genitive	druga	drugova
dative	drugu	drugovima
accusative	druga	drugove
vocative	druže	drugovi
instrumental	drugom	drugovima
locative	drugu	drugovima

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Croatian

Noun

drug : (|: drugovi)

1. friend

Synonyms

• prijatelj

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Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare drog

Noun

drug f and m

1. pole, stick

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Serbian

Noun

drug :, (plural: drugovi)

1. A male friend.

   Petar je moj drug. (Peter is my friend.)

2. A comrade, especially among Partisans during World War II.

   Drug Valter je razneo voz. (Comrade Valter blew up the train.)

3. Used to address people, especially during communism in Yugoslavia.

   Druže nastavniče, kada nam počinje čas? (Comrade teacher, when will our class begin?)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	drug	drugovi
genitive	druga	drugova
dative	drugu	drugovima
accusative	druga	drugove
vocative	druže	drugovi
instrumental	drugom	drugovima
locative	drugu	drugovima

See also

• друг