purple heart
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purple heart¹
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From the color of the pills.
noun purple hearts
- The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally.
- A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s. Detective Peter Goodall said the source of the tablets had not been traced. "Purple heart" or drinamyl tablets, were a stimulant drug and habit-forming.
Purple Heart²
noun Purple Hearts
- A US military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those wounded or killed while serving on or after 5 April 1917.
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title = {purple heart},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/purple%20heart},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
