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black pill

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Noun

  1. An opium pill.
  2. A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it.
  3. A hypothetical pill with a specific probability of causing death, which one is offered a large sum of money in order to take, as a philosophical dilemma.
  4. A traditional Tibetan remedy.
  5. A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, especially incels who believe unattractive men will never be sexually or romantically successful, or those who are pessimistic about social or political issues.
  6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, pill.
  7. Alternative spelling of black pill.

Verb

  1. To cause another to adopt a nihilistic philosophy.
  2. Alternative spelling of black pill (“to adopt a nihilistic far-right philosophy”).
  3. Alternative spelling of blackpill (“to adopt the belief that the universe is inherently devoid of meaning”).

Proper noun

  1. A suburb in Mumbles community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6190).

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