Meanings
- medicineA marketed brand of the drug pethidine.
‘She must of^([sic]) grabbed some pills. There's half a dozen kinds up there – even demerol.’
1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 3072 more examples
“Anyway, when he came out of Patsy's room, I grabbed him by the arm and said, ‘Gee whiz, doc, haven't you got a couple of pills for me—even demerol?’ ” / Willie broke off to explain. “That's a synthetic. We call them demmies. If you can't buy H or M, why, demmies will do the trick.”
1956, Jess Stearn, Sisters of the Night: The Startling Story of Prostitution in New York Today, New York: Julian Messner, Inc., page 59Gately doesn’t miss weed much. The shocker-type AA Miracle is he doesn’t much miss the Demerol, either, today.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 361Synonyms: demmie
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA marketed brand of the drug pethidine.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain
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Demerol. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Demerol
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