- a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured: Ingratitude is a bitter pill.
- a tiresomely disagreeable person.
- a ball, especially a baseball or golf ball.
- birth-control pill.
- billiards.
- to dose with pills.
- to form or make into pills.
- to blackball.
- to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater.
- to peel.
- to become or cause to become bald.
- to rob, plunder, or pillage.
- a small spherical or ovoid mass of a medicinal substance, intended to be swallowed whole
- an oral contraceptive
- something unpleasant that must be endured (esp in the phrase bitter pill to swallow)
- a ball or disc
- a small ball of matted fibres that forms on the surface of a fabric through rubbing
- an unpleasant or boring person
- to give pills to
- to make pills of
- (intr)
- to form into small balls
- (of a fabric) to form small balls of fibre on its surface through rubbing
- to blackball
- to peel or skin (something)
- to pillage or plunder (a place)
- to make or become bald