Meanings
nounphentermine (uncountable)
- uncountableAn appetite suppressant of the amphetamine and phenethylamine classes.
I took the phentermine pills and started quietly obsessing about losing weight again.
2010, Jillian Lauren, Some Girls, page 231
Origin
Contraction of phenyl-tertiary-butylamine.
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