blue pill
noun Pharmacology.
a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.
Also called
mercury mass.
Origin of blue pill
First recorded in 1785–95
Words nearby blue pill
blue note,
blue pencil,
blue peter,
blue phlox,
blue pike,
blue pill,
blue plate,
blue point,
blue pointer,
blue pus,
blue racer
Example sentences from the Web for blue pill
The time will come, we may hope, when doctors will prescribe bird-gazing instead of blue-pill.
Birds in the Bush |Bradford Torrey