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  • proper noun The commercial name of procaine, a common painkiller drug.

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Examples

  • If you eat too much of the chest hair you may need "Novocaine" unless your teeth are "Unbreakable"

    Mmmm, Chest Hair. Jen 2008

  • "I Got and the Girl" and she needs "Something For the Pain" but no amount of "Novocaine" will help.

    Mmmm, Chest Hair. Jen 2008

  • Omar Doom, who plays the third Basterd charged with accompanying Bridget von Hammersmark to the premiere of "Our Nation's Pride" (Brad Pitt and Eli Roth being the other two), convinced someone to snap a picture of him at the dentist just as he was receiving his Novocaine injection.

    ‘Inglorious Basterds’ Star Omar Doom Goes Under The Knife In Today’s Daily TwitPic » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • The CT also deploys some additional measures to abate noise, vibration and harshness and otherwise inject it with Lexus's patented variety of Novocaine.

    At Least It's a Lexus Dan Neil 2011

  • I remember going to the dentist and having fillings put in before Novocaine was available.

    Choices, choices 2010

  • Once more: onward. miles to Isengard: 31.3 music in my head: Bon Jovi, Novocaine

    and we’re off. irishkate 2008

  • In "The Novocaine Mutiny," it is revealed that Radar won $300 from Sgt.

    TVXOHOF, APRIL, 2010: RADAR O'REILLY Toby O'B 2010

  • There were no tears; instead it was just numbness, as though she had received a sympathy Novocaine-ing that would shield her from the days.

    Biography, part II. « 2008

  • While Obama and McCain announced their candidacies in February and April 2007, respectively, the following two years have been nothing but the same kind of bliss that one can only experience in the chair of an orthodontist who just ran out of Novocaine.

    Why Do Presidential Elections Take So Long? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • I was getting Novocaine shot into my teeth every day.

    Welcome Home, Mischa 2009

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