drug

noun

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.

   whence merchants bring their spicy drugs

   In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.

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.

   She used to be a drug addict.

   We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

3. 3

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

   Oh, get that buzz / Love is the drug / I'm thinking of

   Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]

   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.

   Because your love, your love, your love is my drug

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.

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5. 5

   Variant of drugstoreinformalEllipsis of drugstore.

   “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

1. 1

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

   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.

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

3. 3

   To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

   Past all the doses of your drugging doctors

4. 4

   rareTo use intoxicating drugs.

   To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of dragsimple past and past participle of drag

   You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.

   look what the cat drug in

   […] their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.

   When Blackburn called, I drug the telephone cord twenty feet out of the office and sat on the cord while I talked with him.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA drudge.

   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

Forms

plural

drugs

past tense

drugged

past participle

drugged

present participle

drugging

third person singular

drugs