black pill

1. (slang)An opium pill.

2. A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it.

3. A hypothetical pill with a specific probability of causing death, which one is offered a large sum of money in order to take, as a philosophical dilemma.

4. A traditional Tibetan remedy.

5. (attributive, often)A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, or those who are pessimistic about social or political issues.

6. The belief that genetics and appearance (as defined by LMS and PSL theory) determine one's destiny and that effort (especially regarding the sexual marketplace) is futile.

7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, pill.

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