Usually means: Small, ingestible forms of medication.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pills: Merriam-Webster
  2. pills: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pills: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pill's, pill's: Wordnik
  5. pills: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pills: Wiktionary
  7. pills: Dictionary.com
  8. pills: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pills: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. pills: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pills: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pills: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pills: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pills: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pills: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pills: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. pills: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pill as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pill)

noun:  (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
noun:  (strictly) Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
noun:  (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
noun:  Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
noun:  (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
noun:  (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
noun:  (textile) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
noun:  (baseball slang) A baseball.
noun:  (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
noun:  (graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
verb:  (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
verb:  To form into the shape of a pill.
verb:  (transitive) To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
verb:  (transitive, Internet slang) To persuade or convince someone of something.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang, dated) To blackball (a potential club member).
verb:  (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
verb:  To peel; to make by removing the skin.
verb:  To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
verb:  (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
noun:  (obsolete) The peel or skin.
noun:  (now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
noun:  A village in Pill and Easton-in-Gordano parish, North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5275).
noun:  A municipality of Tyrol, Austria.
noun:  A surname.
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