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black pill

A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it.

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#1·Apr 26, 2026

A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it.

I knew a girl-a black pill freak, strung out on the black pills, . . .
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#2·Apr 26, 2026

(slang) An opium pill.

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.
Origin: Nihilism sense influenced by preexisting red pill. See there for further explanation. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#3·Apr 26, 2026

(philosophy) 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.

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.
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