Miltown

plural Miltowns

1. countableuncountabletrademarkmedicineThe drug meprobamate.

   Hollywood had discovered Miltown — and from then on, the pill became a cultural phenomenon.

   2017 August 7, “Miltown: a game-changing drug you've probably never heard of”, in CBC

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   Bored with the emptiness of her life, she was said to be increasingly turning to the consolations of “mother's little helper”—new lines of tranquilizing drugs, such as Librium and Miltown, meant to soothe the female anxieties that Betty Friedan decried in her bestselling The Feminine Mystique.

   2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 58

   There were, of course, ways of obtaining the drug which didn't involve doctors or pharmacies—from private parties to bars selling alcoholic blends such as the ‘Guided Missile’ (a double shot of vodka plus two Miltowns) and the perennially popular ‘Miltini’ (a dry martini with a pill replacing the olive).

   2019, Sarah Broughton, Brando's Bride, Parthian Books, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Equanil