Miltown
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Miltown
Where it comes from
Named after Milltown, New Jersey.
proper noun Miltowns
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The drug meprobamate.
Bored with the emptiness of her life, she was said to be increasingly turning to the consolations of “mother's little helper”—new lines of tranquilizing drugs, such as Librium and Miltown, meant to soothe the female anxieties that Betty Friedan decried in her bestselling The Feminine Mystique.
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Talk about this word "Miltown." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/miltown. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Miltown. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/miltown "Miltown." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/miltown.Cite this
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title = {Miltown},
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year = {2026},
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