1 [C] a small flat round piece of medicine that you swallow without chewing it:
a vitamin pill * Take three pills daily after meals. * (informal) pill-popping (= the act of taking too many pills or using illegal drugs)
seealsoPEPPILL, SLEEPINGPILL
2 (the pill or the Pill) [sing.] a pill that some women take to prevent them becoming pregnant:
the contraceptive pill * to be / go on the pill
seealsoMORNING-AFTERPILL
3 [C] (AmE) an annoying person
IDIOMS
sugar / sweeten the pill to do sth that makes an unpleasant situation seem less unpleasant
SYNSUGAR-COAT
moreatBITTERadj.
verb [V] (of a piece of clothing, especially one made of wool) to become covered in very small balls of FIBRE
