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Ecstasy vs Pillhead - What's the difference?

ecstasy | pillhead |

In slang|lang=en terms the difference between ecstasy and pillhead

is that ecstasy is (slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family while pillhead is (slang) a person who habitually takes tranquilizers, amphetamines, barbiturates, and other drugs, in pill or capsule form.

As a proper noun ecstasy

is (slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.

As a noun pillhead is

(slang) a person who habitually takes tranquilizers, amphetamines, barbiturates, and other drugs, in pill or capsule form.

ecstasy

Alternative forms

* extasy

Noun

  • Intense pleasure.
  • * Shakespeare
  • This is the very ecstasy of love.
  • * Milton
  • He on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy .
  • A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
  • * Dryden
  • like a mad prophet in an ecstasy
  • A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
  • (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
  • * Shakespeare
  • That unmatched form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy .
  • * Marlowe
  • Our words will but increase his ecstasy .
  • (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.
  • (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.
  • (Mayne)

    Synonyms

    * (the drug) MDMA mali; (Modern Vernacular) E, XTC, X, mali, thizz

    Antonyms

    * (intense pleasure) agony

    pillhead

    English

    Noun

    (s)
  • (slang) A person who habitually takes tranquilizers, amphetamines, barbiturates, and other drugs, in pill or capsule form.
  • References

    *American Slang , Robert L. Chapman (ed.), HarperCollins : New York, 1987.