Definitions for steroids

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steroids ste·roid

Spelling: [steer-oid, ster-]

IPA: /ˈstɪər ɔɪd, ˈstɛr-/

Steroids is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 349 anagrams from letters in steroids (deiorsst).

Definitions for steroids

noun

1. any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
2. anabolic steroid.

Idioms

1. on steroids, Slang. much larger, stronger, or more extreme than is normal or expected:

adjective

1. Also, steroidal [sti-roid-l, ste-] /stɪˈrɔɪd l, stɛ-/ (Show IPA). pertaining to or characteristic of a steroid.

Origin of steroids

First recorded in 1925-30; ster(ol) + -oid

Examples for steroids

The 1988 constitutional reform preserved the strong presidential system, but also put checks and balances on steroids.

Now we require safe rooms on steroids, not only protected from physical but technological intrusion.

steroids—all of them, including female and male sex hormones—are concentrated and metabolized in fat cells.

This class uses a MegaFormer, easiest to describe as a Pilates reformer on steroids.

The only other option was submarines—an engineering job on steroids.

That's just who he said he was, because he was asking that the President be given some steroids, which was done.

That's right, he said he should have some steroids because he was an Addisonian.

Modern medications—from opiates to steroids to neuro-implants—are, at best, minimally effective.

The problem is that these hormones—the female sex hormones—are steroids.

By 2005, Congress held hearings on the use of steroids in sports.