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"etymology_text": "From the color of the pills.",
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"The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally."
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"ref": "1963 March 27, “Drug pills eaten like sweets, says detective”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Detective Peter Goodall said the source of the tablets had not been traced. \"Purple heart\" or drinamyl tablets, were a stimulant drug and habit-forming.",
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},
{
"ref": "1972, Ray Davies (lyrics and music), “Big Black Smoke”, performed by The Kinks",
"text": "And every penny she had / Was spent on purple hearts and cigarettes",
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},
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"ref": "2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, page 245",
"text": "We were all coming down from taking purple hearts, the fashionable uppers of the period.",
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"A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s."
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"(slang, historical) A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s."
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