"purple heart" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the color of the pills.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "purple hearts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Recreational drugs",
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      "glosses": [
        "The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
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          "phenobarbitone"
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      ]
    },
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          "name": "Recreational drugs",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245:",
          "text": "We were all coming down from taking purple hearts, the fashionable uppers of the period.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s."
      ],
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        [
          "drinamyl",
          "drinamyl"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, historical) A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s."
      ],
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        "historical",
        "slang"
      ]
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  "etymology_text": "From the color of the pills.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally."
      ],
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        [
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          "phenobarbitone"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
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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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245:",
          "text": "We were all coming down from taking purple hearts, the fashionable uppers of the period.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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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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        "historical",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
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