"chicken pill" meaning in All languages combined

See chicken pill on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: chicken pills [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} chicken pill (plural chicken pills)
  1. (Jamaica, slang) A pill containing hormones to fatten poultry, sometimes taken by women in the hope of developing attractive curves. Tags: Jamaica, slang
    Sense id: en-chicken_pill-en-noun-gTaovYOU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Jamaican English, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2022, Matthias Drawe, The World is My Oyster (Volume 1: Around the World in 30 Stories)",
          "text": "Chicken pills are used to fatten poultry and sold in animal feed stores for two US dollars a dozen. They contain hormones which can lead to breast cancer. Tanesha says there's been a shortage lately. The chicken pills were sold out all over Kingston, and the stores started to require proof that the buyers actually have a chicken farm […]"
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