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sleeping pill (plural sleeping pills)

  1. (pharmacology) A pill or tablet having a soporific effect.
    Synonym: sleeping tablet
    • 1979 April 28, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower”, in Gay Community News, page 22:
      You are my favorite sleeping pill
      The secret bending of my waking will.
      You bring me peace, you bring me rest.
      Your gentle presence leaves me blest.
    • 2012, Thomas Gifford, Kiss Me Once, →ISBN:
      It was a little past ten that night when his nurse, Sylvia of the Bedpans, came tiptoeing in with sleeping pills on a little tray and told him that his friend, Detective Leary, had just been delivered to the emergency room in a meat wagon.

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