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Nuprin

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Etymology

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Marketing name.

Noun

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Nuprin (countable and uncountable, plural Nuprins or Nuprin)

  1. (pharmacology) Brand name for ibuprofen.
    • 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148:
      [] I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if my life depended on it.