Benadryl

English

Etymology

Marketing name. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

Benadryl (countable and uncountable, plural Benadryls)

1. An antihistamine medication used to stop allergies or as a sleep aid.
   • 2022 October 30, Kari Paul, “What TikTok does to your mental health: ‘It’s embarrassing we know so little’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The “Benadryl challenge”, wherein participants took a large amount of antihistamines in an attempt to produce hallucinogenic effects, led to at least one death.

   • 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi‎^[2], Hachette, →ISBN:

     Reading his posts as posted, sitting in my NOBE studio, railing Benadryls, getting progressively less attractive to ex bae due to domestic overexposure, I was rapt.

   • 2024, Miranda July, All Fours‎^[3], Canongate Books, →ISBN:

     The Benadryl was for sleep, not allergies. I'd been having this thing where I woke up every night at two a.m.

See also

• diphenhydramine (common main ingredient)

Further reading

• Benadryl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia