Definitions for Drug

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Drug drug

Spelling: [druhg]

IPA: /drʌg/

Drug is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Drug (dgru).

Definitions for Drug

noun

1. Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.
2. any substance recognized in the official pharmacopoeia or formulary of the nation. any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals. any article, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals. any substance intended for use as a component of such a drug, but not a device or a part of a device.
3. a habit-forming medicinal or illicit substance, especially a narcotic.
4. drugs. chemical substances prepared and sold as pharmaceutical items, either by prescription or over the counter. personal hygienic items sold in a drugstore, as toothpaste, mouthwash, etc.
5. Obsolete. any ingredient used in chemistry, pharmacy, dyeing, or the like.
6. the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of drag.

Idioms

1. drug on the market, a commodity that is overabundant or in excess of demand in the market. Also, drug in the market.

Verb phrases

1. drug up, to take a narcotic drug:

verb (used with object)

1. to administer a medicinal drug to.
2. to stupefy or poison with a drug.
3. to mix (food or drink) with a drug, especially a stupefying, narcotic, or poisonous drug.
4. to administer anything nauseous to.

Origin of Drug

1300-50; Middle English drogges (plural) Middle French drogue, of obscure origin

Examples for Drug

Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?

Mr. Graham, if you'll teach me the drug business I'll work for you for nothing.

And so the same creeping rot of the rule of law that the administration has inflicted on immigration now bedevils our drug laws.

That they would use the drug to excess there can be no doubt, and that is the main point.

A swarm surrounded the drug store, the glass door of which stood open.

“They know there are drug spots,” said Wanda Williams, who was out for a walk with her son.

Then I could drug him and we could carry him off at the lock and put him in a cell.

A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.

I am sending this message from the drug store around the corner.