Meanings
plural blue pills · alternative bluepill · alternative blue-pill
- historicalSynonym of blue mass (“pill of prepared mercury”).
"[…] I'm getting old and it doesn't agree with me. I know I'll be fearfully cranky by the time I'm sixty. But perhaps all I need is a course of blue pills."
1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 27, in Anne of Avonlea1 more example
He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.
1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity FairSynonyms: blue mass
- slangA pill of sildenafil (Viagra), used to treat erectile dysfunction.
Synonyms: bluey, little blue pill
- Rejection of the red pill philosophy.
Antonyms: red pill
present singular third person blue pills · participle present blue pilling · participle past blue pilled · past blue pilled · alternative bluepill · alternative blue-pill
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of blue mass (“pill of prepared mercury”).
nounA pill of sildenafil (Viagra), used to treat erectile dysfunction.
nounRejection of the red pill philosophy.
verbTo reject the red pill philosophy.
Origin
(rejection of the red pill): From a scene in the film The Matrix (1999), where the main character, who lives in a virtual world known as the Matrix, is given a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix and a blue pill that will return him to his simulated life.
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