drug

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   administer a drug to

   They drugged the kidnapped tourist

2. 2
   noun

   A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

   Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.

3. 3
   noun

   A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

   We took drugs and partied all night.

4. 4
   noun

   Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

   Oh, get that buzz / Love is the drug / I'm thinking of

5. 5
   noun

   Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

   And virtue shall a drug become.

6. 6
   noun

   Ellipsis of drugstore.

   “I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”

7. 7
   verb

   To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

   She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.

8. 8
   verb

   To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

   She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.

Etymology

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”) (c. 1462), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), Germa…