blue pill
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Noun
blue pill (plural blue pills)
- Synonym of blue mass; a miraculous mercury treatment
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair:
- He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.
- 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 27, in Anne of Avonlea:
- " […] I'm getting old and it doesn't agree with me. I know I'll be fearfully cranky by the time I'm sixty. But perhaps all I need is a course of blue pills."
- Ellipsis of little blue pill.; a therapeutic enabling sexual function.
- Antonym of red pill; rejecting the red pill philosophy.
Derived terms
antonym of red pill
Verb
blue pill (third-person singular simple present blue pills, present participle blue pilling, simple past and past participle blue pilled)
- (transitive) To reject the red pill philosophy in speaking to someone.
- Antonym: red pill