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morning-after pill

noun

Definitions

  1. A contraceptive in the form of a pill taken shortly after sexual intercourse.

    • Dr. Morris and his colleagues have reported on one experimental compound designed specifically to be a morning-after pill.
    • These policy efforts confuse the public into thinking that the morning-after pill, which is simply a super-dose of the regular pill, is the same as mifepristone, the abortion pill.
    • Even after a girl has sex, it's not too late to prevent her from dropping an egg. That's what the morning-after pill does.

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