sleeping pill
English
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editsleeping pill (plural sleeping pills)
- (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.
Translations
edita pill having a soporific effect
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