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Tranquilizer vs Tranq - What's the difference?

tranquilizer | tranq |

As nouns the difference between tranquilizer and tranq

is that tranquilizer is that which tranquillizes or soothes while tranq is (slang) a tranquilizer.

As a verb tranq is

(slang|transitive) to tranquilize.

tranquilizer

English

Alternative forms

* tranquiliser, tranquilliser (mainly UK) * tranquillizer (mainly US)

Noun

(wikipedia tranquilizer) (en noun)
  • That which tranquillizes or soothes.
  • (pharmacology) A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension; a sedative.

    • See also

    * horse tranquilizer * sleeping pill

    tranq

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A tranquilizer.
  • * 1982 , Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi
    • "I gave her a tranq ," he said with anguish. "She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her."
  • * 1992 , Sisters of Mercy, Alice (song)
    • She needs you like she needs her tranqs / To tell her that the world is clean.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To tranquilize.
  • * 2007 , Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas (page 65)
    • He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.
  • * 2008 , Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind (page 144)
    • He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out. His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities. “Got him!” the man who had tranqed him shouted to his buddies.
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