OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21064

pill

/pɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
píldora anticonceptiva
Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
Jane went on the pill when she left for college.
She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.
frisado
A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.
One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.
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