blue pill

English

Alternative forms

• bluepill, blue-pill

Noun

blue pill (plural blue pills)

1. Synonym of blue mass; a miraculous mercury treatment
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair‎^[1]:

     He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.

   • 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 27, in Anne of Avonlea‎^[2]:

     " […] I'm getting old and it doesn't agree with me. I know I'll be fearfully cranky by the time I'm sixty. But perhaps all I need is a course of blue pills."

2. Ellipsis of little blue pill.; a therapeutic enabling sexual function.
3. Antonym of red pill; rejecting the red pill philosophy.

Derived terms

antonym of red pill

• bluepill
• blue-pill
• blue pilled
• bluepilled
• blue-pilled
• blue-pilling
• blue pilling
• bluepilling

 

Verb

blue pill (third-person singular simple present blue pills, present participle blue pilling, simple past and past participle blue pilled)

1. (transitive) To reject the red pill philosophy in speaking to someone.

   Antonym: red pill

See also

• black pill
• red pill