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Purple heart

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally.
  2. 2
    A US military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those wounded or killed while serving on or after 5 April 1917. US
  3. 3
    a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative wordnet
  4. 4
    A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s. historical, slang

    "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."

  5. 5
    a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action wordnet

Etymology

From the color of the pills.

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