Pill

Pill or The Pill may refer to:

  • Pill (pharmacy), referring to anything small and round for a specific dose of medicine. The term is used colloquially in several ways:
    • A tablet or capsule which replaced dosing via pill
    • American slang for recreationally used prescription drugs, particularly when used in plural as in "popping pills"
    • "The Pill", a general nickname for the combined oral contraceptive pill
    • Pills is a nickname for the recreational drug MDMA, also known as ecstasy.
  • Pill (rapper), American rapper
  • Pill (textile), a small ball of fuzz on cloth formed by rubbing or wearing, or the creation of such fuzz balls
  • Pill, Tyrol, a municipality in Austria
  • Pill, Somerset, a community in the United Kingdom
  • Pill, a colloqial abbreviation of Pillgwenlly, electoral ward in the city of Newport, South Wales
  • "The Pill" (song), a 1975 song by Loretta Lynn
  • "The Pill", a 1999 episode of That '70s Show TV series
  • "Pills for Breakfast", a song on Faith No More's 1985 album We Care a Lot
  • "Pills", a song by Bo Diddley


Famous quotes containing the word pill:

    Andrews: Do you mind if I ask a question frankly? Do you love my daughter?
    Peter: Any guy that’d fall in love with your daughter ought to have his head examined.
    Andrews: Now that’s an evasion.
    Peter: She grabbed herself a perfect running mate. King Westley! The pill of the century. What she needs is a guy that’d take a sock at her once a day, whether it’s coming to her or not.
    Robert Riskin (1897–1955)