sleeping pill en · NOUN
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A pill or tablet having a soporific effect.
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.
1979 April 28, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower”, in Gay Community News, page 22: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.
2012, Thomas Gifford, Kiss Me Once, →ISBN:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| sleeping pills | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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