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sugar pill
noun
: a pill that is given to a patient like a drug but that has no medicine in it
Full Definition of SUGAR PILL
: a pharmacologically inert pill : placebo
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First Known Use of SUGAR PILL
1852
Rhymes with SUGAR PILL
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