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cough syrup

noun as in syrup for soothing cough

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In a bit of fate, Courtney opened her purse and displayed her own vial of cough syrup, a more powerful brand.

Kurt was backstage drinking cough syrup directly from the bottle.

Lil Wayne once said that quitting sizzurp—cough syrup laced with codeine—‘feels like death in your stomach.’

Over-the-counter cough syrup may also be used, though the effects of that are more hallucinogenic than euphoric.

Last year, a study found that 5.5 percent of surveyed 12th graders had gotten high off cough syrup in one way or another.

I'll invent the graphophone, the kodak, the vitascope, an' Milliken's cough syrup an' a lot of other big modern inventions.

Copernicus tried to convince himself that the profit from the cough syrup would comfort him for his disappointment.

Cough-syrup is made from them and also substitutes for tobacco and hops.

There is a rabbit foot weed that we mixed with sassafras and made good cough syrup.

It proved to be a kind of essence of horehound, of notable tartness and pungency, very like a powerful cough syrup.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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