Usually means: Small, solid dose of medication.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pill, the pill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pill, pill, the pill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pill, pill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pill, the pill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pill, pill: Wordnik
  7. pill, the pill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pill, pill: Wiktionary
  9. pill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pill, the Pill: Dictionary.com
  13. pill: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pill (disambiguation), Pill (pharmacy), Pill (rapper), Pill (textile), Pill, The Pill (film), The Pill (song), The Pill, The pill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pill: Rhymezone
  19. pill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pill: Free Dictionary
  22. pill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. pill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Pill: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Pill: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. pill, the Pill: Medical dictionary
  6. Pill: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. PILL: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. pill: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PILL: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pill, pill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the pill: Urban Dictionary
  3. Pill: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pill: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
noun:  (strictly) Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
noun:  (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
noun:  Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
noun:  (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
noun:  (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
noun:  (textile) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
noun:  (baseball slang) A baseball.
noun:  (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
noun:  (graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
verb:  (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
verb:  To form into the shape of a pill.
verb:  (transitive) To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
verb:  (transitive, Internet slang) To persuade or convince someone of something.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang, dated) To blackball (a potential club member).
verb:  (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
verb:  To peel; to make by removing the skin.
verb:  To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
verb:  (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
noun:  (obsolete) The peel or skin.
noun:  (now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
noun:  A village in Pill and Easton-in-Gordano parish, North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5275).
noun:  A municipality of Tyrol, Austria.
noun:  A surname.

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