chicken pill

English

Noun

chicken pill (plural chicken pills)

1. (Jamaica, slang) A pill containing hormones to fatten poultry, sometimes taken by women in the hope of developing attractive curves.
   • 2004, Steeve O. Buckridge, The Language of Dress, page 187:

     Some go so far as to take hormones ("the chicken pill") to develop big bottoms and breasts.

   • 2022, Matthias Drawe, The World is My Oyster (Volume 1: Around the World in 30 Stories)

     Chicken pills are used to fatten poultry and sold in animal feed stores for two US dollars a dozen. They contain hormones which can lead to breast cancer. Tanesha says there's been a shortage lately. The chicken pills were sold out all over Kingston, and the stores started to require proof that the buyers actually have a chicken farm […]