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noun/ˈdɹʌɡ/[ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ][ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ]
  1. 1

    A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

    • Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.
    • The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.
  2. 2

    A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

    • We took drugs and partied all night.
    • They're on drugs.
  3. 3

    Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.broadly

    • Oh, get that buzz / Love is the drug / I'm thinking of
    • Fear was my drug of choice. I thrived on scary movies, ghost stories and rollercoasters. I dreamed of playing the last girl left alive in a slasher film — the one who screams herself hoarse as she discovers her friends' bodies one by one.
  4. 4

    Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

    • And virtue shall a drug become.
  5. 5

    Ellipsis of drugstore.CanadaUSabbreviation

    • “I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”
verb/ˈdɹʌɡ/[ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ][ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ]
  1. 1

    To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.transitive

    • She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.
  2. 2

    To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.transitive

    • She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
  3. 3

    To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.intransitive

    • Past all the doses of your drugging doctors
  4. 4

    To use intoxicating drugs.intransitiverare

    • To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day.
verb/ˈdɹʌɡ/[ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ][ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ]
  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of dragUSdialectalform-of

    • You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
    • look what the cat drug in
noun/ˈdɹʌɡ/[ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ][ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ]
  1. 1

    A drudge.obsolete

    • Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot

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