black pill
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hypothetical pill with a specific probability of causing death, which one is offered a large sum of money in order to take, as a philosophical dilemma.
noun
noun
A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, or those who are pessimistic about social or political issues.
noun
The belief that genetics and appearance (as defined by LMS and PSL theory) determine one's destiny and that effort (especially regarding the sexual marketplace) is futile.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, pill.
Example Sentences
- "Those funny pipes were used for opium-smoking — just a puff for each shining black pill, and then oblivion to all earthly cares — dreams and dreams of beautiful worlds."
- "I knew a girl-a black pill freak, strung out on the black pills, . . ."
- "Each person requested one of the following - black pill, calomel and soda, puick, jallop and antimony wine. Those were the names the people knew for drugs in those days."
- "Desperately injured, sick, or miserable workers used the "black pill," an overdose of opium, to commit suicide."
- "“My countrymen,” the oriental doctor said, “take the 'black pill' themselves when life loses its appeal or solicitously give it to a friend when hope no longer exists and nothing but suffering remains.”"
- "He says conditions got worse as time went along and at different times she threatened to give him a black pill, that he asked her what this meant and she said "that was the way women had of getting rid of husbands when they didn't want them any more.""