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pills

British  
/ pɪlz /

plural noun

  1. a slang word for testicles See testicle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Then, because the pills cost tens of thousands of dollars and could bankrupt budgets, state after state decided you couldn’t have the cure until your liver had scarred badly enough to prove you needed it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Patients who took vitamin C pills lived no longer than those who didn’t.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

Some analysts say the GLP-1 race will remain competitive as weight-loss pills and new injections are introduced to the market.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Both admitted they had lied about where the pills were sourced, their purity and their company's testing procedures.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Doc rolled pills and busted boils and cut fishhooks out of us if we couldn’t dig them out ourselves.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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