drugs
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drug/drʌɡ/
▶noun a medicine or other substance which has a marked physiological effect when taken into the body.
■ a substance with narcotic or stimulant effects.
▶verb (drugs, drugging, drugged) administer a drug to, in order to induce stupor or insensibility.– origin ME: from OFr. drogue, perh. from MDu. droge vate, lit. ‘dry vats’, referring to the contents.
'drugs' also found in these Oxford entries:
acid
- acid house
- acid rock
- acridine
- allopathy
- alpha blocker
- amphetamine
- anaesthesia
- analgesia
- angel dust
- aniline
- antiretroviral
- bang
- barbiturate
- basehead
- basuco
- Benzedrine
- beta blocker
- bhang
- bioprospecting
- blow
- bombed
- bong
- box
- candyman
- cane
- caned
- cannabinol
- cannabis
- charas
- charlie
- chemical
- chemist
- cocaine
- cocktail
- combination therapy
- control
- convulsant
- crack
- dagga
- DEA
- deal
- debauch
- debauched
- debauchery
- dependent
- designer drug
- detoxify
- Dexedrine
- dexy
