pill popper
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[edit]Noun
[edit]pill popper (plural pill poppers)
- A syringe-like device for administering medicinal pills to animals.
- Synonym: pill gun
- (informal, humorous) A person who enjoys or frequently takes medication in pill form.
- Well, you know, once Pop got into his sixties, he came to be a bit of a pill popper, what with the blood pressure and the blood sugar and the cholesterol and the arthritis.
- (informal, often derogatory) A person who frequently takes any other kind of pill, such as vitamins or illicit drugs.
- It's great when people are enthusiastic about health and wellness, but you just have to watch out for how hard the vitamin people sell you on the pricey supplements — they'll try to turn you into a pill popper.
- 2008, Kerrie Droban, Running with the Devil, page 158:
- In addition to using methamphetamine, most of the women JJ encountered were pill-poppers—Xanax, Ecstasy, Somas.
- (informal, derogatory) Especially, someone with a frank substance use disorder who takes a lot of illicit pills, especially opioid street drug pills: synonym of pillhead.
- I wouldn't hang around in that part of town after dark, what with all the methheads and pill poppers. I'm not looking to get robbed.
Translations
[edit]one who takes pills
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