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cultural barbiturate

noun

Definitions

  1. Synonym of television.

    • Why should so much of television be a cultural barbiturate, a tranquilizer for the ills and anxieties of our age?
    • Critics mockingly refer to television as a "cultural barbiturate" and joke about "mainlining the tube."
    • For almost a quarter of a century, the medium has been used, in the words of Jack Gould of the New York Times, as a "cultural barbiturate" that "kills time efficiently and economically".

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