blue pill
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[edit]Noun
[edit]blue pill (plural blue pills)
- (historical) Synonym of blue mass (“pill of prepared mercury”).
- 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."
- (slang) A pill of sildenafil (Viagra), used to treat erectile dysfunction.
- Synonyms: bluey, little blue pill
- Antonym of red pill; rejecting the red pill philosophy. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text
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Verb
[edit]blue pill (third-person singular simple present blue pills, present participle blue pilling, simple past and past participle blue pilled)
- (transitive) To reject the red pill philosophy in speaking to someone.
- Antonym: red pill