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pilled (comparative more pilled, superlative most pilled)

  1. (slang) Pilled-up, intoxicated on pills.
    • 1966, Alan Bestic, Turn Me on Man, page 20:
      Remember when I was bumming around Chelsea on the purple hearts! The chicks there thought I was God's gift to their little bohemia. A real devil. ‘I'm pilled to the gills,’ I'd tell them and their little eyes would grow as big as plates.
    • 2014, Casey Harison, quoting “Irish” Jack Lyons, Feedback: The Who and Their Generation, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 65:
      I never give these randy bastards a second glance when I'm dancing because when I'm pilled sex is too slow and anyway my legs are like rubber and I feel like I can out-dance anyone.
  2. (textiles) Of woven fabric: having formed small matted balls of fiber.
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (slang) In a state of believing. (In the sense of having taken a figurative pill)
    • 2021, Caleb Madison, “How We Swallowed Redpilled Whole”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      To be X-pilled meant to learn new information that made you an enthusiastic lover of X.

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pilled

  1. simple past and past participle of pill

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