drug

(chiefly plural, which see) a recreational drug, psychoactive substance, especially when illegal and addictive


drug

Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.

The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.

whence merchants bring their spicy drugs

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

We took drugs and partied all night.

They're on drugs.

She used to be a drug addict.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 3:

You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot.

March 1991, unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN, page 70

The only thing working against the poor Drug Abuse Resistance Officer is high-school students. ... He'd offer his simple lesson: Drugs are bad, people who use drugs are bad, and abstinence is the only answer.

2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, Chronic Discontent Books, →ISBN, page 19:

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]

2005, Jack Haas, Om, Baby!: a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self, page 8:

Fear was my drug of choice. I thrived on scary movies, ghost stories and rollercoasters. I dreamed of playing the last girl left alive in a slasher film — the one who screams herself hoarse as she discovers her friends' bodies one by one.

2009, Niki Flynn, Dances with Werewolves, page 8:

2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug

The truth is...eating is my drug. When I am upset, I eat...when I am sad, I eat...when I am happy, I eat.

2011, Joslyn Shy, Introducing the Truth, page 5:

Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

And virtue shall a drug become.

[…] Sermons are mere Drugs. The Trade is ſo vaſtly ſtocked vvith them, that really unleſs they come out vvith the Name of VVhitfield [i.e, George Whitefield] or VVeſtley [John Wesley], or ſome other ſuch great Man, as a Biſhop, or thoſe ſort of People, I don't care to touch, […]

1742, Henry Fielding, “A Pleasant Discourse between the Two Parsons and the Bookseller, […]”, in The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I, page 117:

Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

“I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”

(Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore.

عَقَّار

substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine

narkotik

psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Old French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).


drug

She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.

(transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.

(transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

Past all the doses of your drugging doctors

1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day.

1990 February 4, Cindy Lanane, “With The Confidence Other Women Have Given Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 6:

(intransitive, rare) To use intoxicating drugs.

en-verb

drug (third-person singular simple present drugs, present participle drugging, simple past and past participle drugged)

drugs (present singular third-person)
drugging (participle present)
drugged (participle past)
drugged (past)


drug

You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.

look what the cat drug in

[…] their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.

When Blackburn called, I drug the telephone cord twenty feet out of the office and sat on the cord while I talked with him.

2005, Diane Wilson, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, →ISBN, page 193:

It's about time you drug it home, Jeff!

2009 August 13, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

(dialectal) simple past and past participle of drag

Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of drew, from Middle English drug, drog, drugh, drogh, from Old English drōg, from Proto-Germanic *drōg; compare Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with hang.


drug

Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:


drug

Bødz tobye poszegnanye, sinu moy myly, bo gesz dobrego druga a czsnego møza sin (boni et optimi viri filius es)

1930 [c. 1455], “Tob”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 7, 7:

Omnes... vocales modo longantur, modo patulo breviantur. Ex quarum longacione et breviacione diversus consurgit sensus diccionum... Exemplum de u: druga, druug

1907 [c. 1470], Jakub Parkoszowic, edited by Jan Łoś, Traktat o ortografii polskiej, Żurawica, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Krakow, page 401:

Polish: drug

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *drȗgъ. First attested in the fifteenth century.


drug

Breton: drouk

Cornish: drog

Middle Welsh: drwc

Welsh: drwg


drug

drugi (plural)
drug (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
drugul (accusative definite nominative singular)
drugi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
drugii (accusative definite nominative plural)
drug (indefinite singular)
drugului (definite singular)
drugi (indefinite singular)
drugilor (definite plural)
drugule (singular vocative)
drugilor (vocative)


drug

(dated) comrade (commonly used in parts of Former Yugoslavia among coworkers or friends)

drȗg (canonical masculine)
дру̑г (Cyrillic)
drȗg (nominative singular)
drȕgovi (nominative plural)
drȗzi (nominative plural)
druga (genitive singular)
drugova (genitive plural)
druga (genitive plural)
drugu (dative singular)
drugovima (dative plural)
druzima (dative plural)
druga (accusative singular)
drugove (accusative plural)
druge (accusative plural)
drȗže (singular vocative)
drugovi (plural vocative)
druzi (plural vocative)
drugu (locative singular)
drugovima (locative plural)
druzima (locative plural)
drugom (instrumental singular)
drugovima (instrumental plural)
druzima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *drugъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *draugás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-.


drug

drȗg (canonical)
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drúg (masculine nominative singular)
drúgi (masculine nominative singular)
drúga (feminine nominative singular)
drúgo (neuter nominative singular)
drúgega (genitive masculine singular)
drúge (feminine genitive singular)
drúgega (genitive neuter singular)
drúgemu (dative masculine singular)
drúgi (dative feminine singular)
drúgemu (dative neuter singular)
nominativeⁱⁿᵃⁿ or (accusative masculine singular)
genitive (accusative masculine singular)
drúgo (accusative feminine singular)
drúgo (accusative neuter singular)
drúgem (locative masculine singular)
drúgi (feminine locative singular)
drúgem (locative neuter singular)
drúgim (instrumental masculine singular)
drúgo (feminine instrumental singular)
drúgim (instrumental neuter singular)
drúga (dual masculine nominative)
drúgi (dual feminine nominative)
drúgi (dual neuter nominative)
drúgih (dual genitive masculine)
drúgih (dual feminine genitive)
drúgih (dual genitive neuter)
drúgima (dative dual masculine)
drúgima (dative dual feminine)
drúgima (dative dual neuter)
drúga (accusative dual masculine)
drúgi (accusative dual feminine)
drúgi (accusative dual neuter)
drúgih (dual locative masculine)
drúgih (dual feminine locative)
drúgih (dual locative neuter)
drúgima (dual instrumental masculine)
drúgima (dual feminine instrumental)
drúgima (dual instrumental neuter)
drúgi (masculine nominative plural)
drúge (feminine nominative plural)
drúga (neuter nominative plural)
drúgih (genitive masculine plural)
drúgih (feminine genitive plural)
drúgih (genitive neuter plural)
drúgim (dative masculine plural)
drúgim (dative feminine plural)
drúgim (dative neuter plural)
drúge (accusative masculine plural)
drúge (accusative feminine plural)
drúga (accusative neuter plural)
drúgih (locative masculine plural)
drúgih (feminine locative plural)
drúgih (locative neuter plural)
drúgimi (instrumental masculine plural)
drúgimi (feminine instrumental plural)
drúgimi (instrumental neuter plural)


drug

drug (nominative singular)
drugud (nominative plural)
drugun (accusative singular)
drugud (accusative plural)
drugun (genitive singular)
druguiden (genitive plural)
drugud (partitive singular)
druguid (partitive plural)
drugun (essive-instructive singular)
druguin (essive-instructive plural)
druguks (singular translative)
druguikš (plural translative)
drugus (inessive singular)
druguiš (inessive plural)
druguspäi (elative singular)
druguišpäi (elative plural)
druguhu (illative singular)
druguihe (illative plural)
drugul (adessive singular)
druguil (adessive plural)
drugulpäi (ablative singular)
druguilpäi (ablative plural)
drugule (allative singular)
druguile (allative plural)
druguta (abessive singular)
druguita (abessive plural)
drugunke (comitative singular)
druguidenke (comitative plural)
drugudme (prolative singular)
druguidme (plural prolative)
drugunno (approximative approximative-i singular)
druguidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
drugunnoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
druguidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
drugunnopäi (egressive singular)
druguidennopäi (egressive plural)
druguhusai (singular terminative terminative-i)
druguihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
drugulesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
druguilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
drugussai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
druguhupäi (additive additive-i singular)
druguihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
drugulepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
druguilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)

From Russian друг (drug, “(male) friend”).