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单词 purple heart
释义

purple heart

See also: Purple Heart and purpleheart

English

Etymology

From the color of the pills.

Noun

purple heart (plural purple hearts)

  1. The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally.
  2. (slang, historical) A drinamyl tablet.
    • 1963 March 27, “Drug pills eaten like sweets, says detective”, in The Guardian:
      Detective Peter Goodall said the source of the tablets had not been traced. "Purple heart" or drinamyl tablets, were a stimulant drug and habit-forming.
    • 1972, Ray Davies (lyrics and music), “Big Black Smoke”, performed by The Kinks:
      And every penny she had / Was spent on purple hearts and cigarettes

Further reading

  • Jonathon Green (2023), purple hearts n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
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