drug

drug
drug1 W1S2 [drʌg] n
[Date: 1300-1400; : Old French; Origin: drogue]
1.) an illegal substance such as ↑marijuana or ↑cocaine, which some people take in order to feel happy, relaxed, or excited
▪ A lot of young people start taking drugs at school.
▪ One third of America's thirteen-year-olds use drugs .
▪ I don't drink, and I don't do drugs .
▪ She always looks as though she's on drugs .
▪ All the band experimented with drugs , particularly LSD.
▪ Parents should talk openly to their children about the dangers of drug abuse .
▪ Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose .
▪ After being returned to the USA he was convicted on drug trafficking charges.
▪ the war on drugs
2.) a medicine, or a substance for making medicines
▪ a drug used in the treatment of cancer
drug for
▪ new drugs for AIDS-related conditions
▪ Drugs prescribed (=ordered for people) by doctors can be extremely hazardous if used in the wrong way
▪ The big drug companies make huge profits.
3.) a substance that people doing a sport sometimes take illegally to improve their performance
▪ She was banned from the Olympics after failing a drug test (=a test that shows if you have taken drugs) .
performance-enhancing drugs
4.) [usually singular]
a substance such as tobacco, coffee, or alcohol, that makes you want more and more of it
5.) be (like) a drug
if an activity is like a drug, you enjoy it so much that you want to do it more and more
▪ Athletics is like a drug, it keeps dragging you back for more.
→↑designer drug,miracle drug at ↑miracle
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
take/use drugs
do drugs informal (=take drugs)
be on drugs (=take drugs regularly)
experiment with drugs (=try taking drugs)
come off drugs (=stop taking drugs permanently)
high on drugs (=experiencing the effects of a drug)
hard drugs (=strong drugs such asheroin ,cocaine etc)
soft drugs (=less strong drugs such asmarijuana )
recreational drugs (=drugs people take for pleasure)
drug abuse
drug overdose (=when someone takes too much of a drug and becomes unconscious or dies)
drug trafficking/smuggling (=bringing drugs into a country)
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drug 2
drug2 past tense and past participle drugged present participle drugging
v [T]
1.) to give a person or animal a drug, especially in order to make them feel tired or go to sleep, or to make them perform well in a race
▪ Johnson drugged and attacked four women.
▪ There was no evidence that the horse had been drugged.
2.) to put drugs in someone's food or drink in order to make them feel tired or go to sleep
= ↑spike
▪ The wine had been drugged.
3.) be drugged up to the eyeballs
especially BrE to have taken a lot of illegal drugs, or to have been given a lot of medicine
▪ She was in pain, despite being drugged up to the eyeballs.
>drugged adj

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