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blue pill

noun

Etymology

(rejection of the red pill): From a scene in the film The Matrix (1999), where the main character, who lives in a virtual world known as the Matrix, is given a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix and a blue pill that will return him to his simulated life.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of blue mass (“pill of prepared mercury”).

    • He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.
    • "[…] I'm getting old and it doesn't agree with me. I know I'll be fearfully cranky by the time I'm sixty. But perhaps all I need is a course of blue pills."

  2. A pill of sildenafil (Viagra), used to treat erectile dysfunction.

  3. Rejection of the red pill philosophy.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To reject the red pill philosophy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA