"morning-after pill" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-morning-after pill.wav [Southern-England] Forms: morning-after pills [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=morning-after pill}} morning-after pill (plural morning-after pills)
  1. A contraceptive in the form of a pill taken shortly after sexual intercourse. Categories (topical): Birth control Synonyms: ECP Translations (type of contraceptive pill): 事後丸 (Chinese Cantonese), 事后丸 (alt: si⁶ hau⁶ jyun⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), morning-afterpil [feminine] (Dutch), noodpil [feminine] (Dutch), katumuspilleri (Finnish), pilule du lendemain [feminine] (French), pílula do día seguinte [feminine] (Galician), Pille danach [feminine] (German), χάπι της επόμενης ημέρας (chápi tis epómenis iméras) [neuter] (Greek), esemény utáni tabletta (Hungarian), pillola del giorno dopo [feminine] (Italian), angrepille [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), angrepille [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), pigułka dzień po [feminine] (Polish), pílula do dia seguinte (Portuguese), píldora del día después [feminine] (Spanish), dagen efter-piller [neuter] (Swedish), akut-p-piller [neuter] (Swedish), ertesi gün hapı (Turkish)

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