polydrug

[ pol-ee-druhg ]

/ ˌpɒl iˈdrʌg /

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adjective

being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.

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Origin of polydrug

First recorded in 1970–75; poly- + drug¹

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How to use polydrug in a sentence

A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?
Mexico’s Priests Are Marked for Murder|Jason McGahan|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro|Bill Conroy|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And so the same creeping rot of the rule of law that the administration has inflicted on immigration now bedevils our drug laws.
Obama’s Pot Policy Is Refer Madness|James Poulos|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST

“They know there are drug spots,” said Wanda Williams, who was out for a walk with her son.
Ground Zero of the NYPD Slowdown|Batya Ungar-Sargon|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But green Chartreuse unhappily is not innocent; it is more than a spirit, it is a powerful drug.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Five years later he was drawing a large salary, and at the age of thirty he had opened a retail drug store of his own.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Each cachet contained three decigrams of malourea, the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
Then the drug was coaxed between the stricken man's teeth, and presently he opened his eyes once more.
The Weight of the Crown|Fred M. White
Rashid, the attendant, knew all Kazmah's clients, and with the box or flask he gave them a quantity of the required drug.
Dope|Sax Rohmer

British Dictionary definitions for polydrug

poly-drug

adjective

involving or taking more than one kind of illegal druga poly-drug user

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