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ipecac syrup

noun

Pharmacology.
  1. a preparation containing ipecac in a syrupy medium, used as an emetic.



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Indeed there is something effluvial about the entire book, as if the #MeToo movement provided her, narratively speaking, with a stiff dose of ipecac syrup.

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On it were items such as ipecac syrup, a crank radio and a whistle.

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She tells Chip to respond to a bully by ridiculing his penis size and tries to scare Sabrina into thinking she’s pregnant by drugging her with ipecac syrup.

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The conviction stems from a November 2000 incident, when Breland’s son came to a Little League football practice at a Las Vegas park with a bottle of juice laced with Ipecac syrup.

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Dissolve in half a pint of boiling water, and when cool add wine of ipecac, syrup of balsam tolu, and essence of anise, of each one ounce.

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