Meanings
- euphemistichumorousuncountableRecreational drugs.
Who am I? Just a middle-aged guy, who enjoyed the fruits of ill gotten wealth, as an entrepreneur of recreational medicine.
1996 July 1, Princess, “I've got time for you”, in alt.personal.ads (Usenet), retrieved 19 Apr 20224 more examples
> I wonder if people go to rec.medicine and ask for advice about open heart Recreational medicine is mostly illegal in the U.S. these days. ;-)
1999 January 8, John Byrnes, “Climbers who've had knots named after them”, in rec.climbing (Usenet), retrieved 19 Apr 2022That's how you always answer when you don't have the truth on your side. Next time, withdraw slowly from your recreational medicine so you don't become hostile and delusioned.
2007 August 12, larry moe 'n curly, “Re: OT Clinton: Get educated, drop the rhetoric”, in alt.autos.toyota (Usenet), retrieved 19 Apr 2022I'm a little older than you and started earlier. I started smoking pot at 16. I was in graduate school in the early 80s and had reduced my practice of recreational medicine by quite a bit.
2010 November 3, David J. Martin, “Cocaine, mirrors, and US currency”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 19 Apr 2022FYI: metformin; janumet; pravastatin; lisinipril. digoxin; verapamil; trulicity; amlodopine; aspirin. I do not smoke; I do not drink at all (not even a tsp of wine on Shabbos evening); nor do I use any kind of 'recreational' medicine. I daven three times a day; keep kosher; do not even wish for NaziGene and PaedoBarney to perish an early, painful biological death (albeit even if deserved).
2018 June 29, Chafetz Chayim ha'Yehu'di, “Harlan Ellison z"l...27 May 1934-28 June 2018”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet), retrieved 19 Apr 2022
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recreational medicine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recreational%20medicine
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