diet pill

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noun

a tablet or capsule containing chemical substances that aid in reducing or controlling body weight, usually by suppressing the appetite.

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Origin of diet pill

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby diet pill

diethyltryptamine, dietician, dietitian, diet kitchen, die to, diet pill, diet pyramid, Dietrich, Dietrich von Bern, Dieu et mon droit, Dieu vous garde

How to use diet pill in a sentence

For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism|Samantha Allen|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Park employees helped John quit tobacco by way of a butts-proof glass enclosure, a drastic change in diet, and regular exercise.
Zebra Finches, Dolphins, Elephants, and More Animals Under the Influence|Bill Schulz|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.
Why Your New Year’s Diet Will Fail|Carrie Arnold|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Still other people have moved away from the word “diet” altogether.
Why Your New Year’s Diet Will Fail|Carrie Arnold|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
Rush Limbaugh’s Fear of a Black James Bond|Dean Obeidallah|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Excretion of these substances is greatly increased by a diet rich in nuclei, as sweetbreads and liver.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
I'm not enamored of a straight meat diet as a rule, but that evening I was in no mood to carp at anything half-way eatable.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The stools of infants are yellow, owing partly to their milk diet and partly to the presence of unchanged bilirubin.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
However cleverly the pill was gilded, the Marshal knew that it was the Emperor's distrust which had lost him the command.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
The poor fellow's health so gave way under this meagre diet, that he died before his course of study was finished.
Friend Mac Donald|Max O'Rell