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Meaning of purple heart | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally.
  2. 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.
    US
  3. A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s.
    historical, slang

Equivalents

Français Purple Heart

Examples

“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.”
“And every penny she had / Was spent on purple hearts and cigarettes”
“We were all coming down from taking purple hearts, the fashionable uppers of the period.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

purple helmet purple heron purple ivory purple Jesus purple joe-pye weed purple judge

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