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Nuprin en · NOUN

Etymology

Marketing name.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Brand name for ibuprofen.
   • […]I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if my life depended on it. 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148:

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