Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A drug, C17H25N, used in veterinary medicine as an anesthetic and illegally as a hallucinogen; PCP.

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  • noun chemistry A veterinary anesthetic, used illegally in humans as a hallucinogen

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  • noun a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[phen(o)– + cycl(o)– + –id(e) + –ine.]

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phenylcyclohexylpiperidine

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Examples

  • Employees at Livermore, one of the federal government's top science labs, handle as many as 42 different kinds of dangerous drugs, including black tar heroin, cocaine, phencyclidine and steroids.

    Where It Go? U.S. Energy Lab Loses Track Of Cocaine, Heroin AP 2011

  • Employees at Livermore, one of the federal government's top science labs, handle as many as 42 different kinds of dangerous drugs, including black tar heroin, cocaine, phencyclidine and steroids.

    Where It Go? U.S. Energy Lab Loses Track Of Cocaine, Heroin AP 2011

  • Employees at Livermore, one of the federal government's top science labs, handle as many as 42 different kinds of dangerous drugs, including black tar heroin, cocaine, phencyclidine and steroids.

    Where It Go? U.S. Energy Lab Loses Track Of Cocaine, Heroin AP 2011

  • The report said European officials last year identified for the first time derivatives of two well-established drugs—the anesthetics ketamine and phencyclidine, or PCP.

    Report: New 'Legal Highs' Multiplying in Europe Jeanne Whalen 2011

  • Employees at Livermore, one of the federal government's top science labs, handle as many as 42 different kinds of dangerous drugs, including black tar heroin, cocaine, phencyclidine and steroids.

    Where It Go? U.S. Energy Lab Loses Track Of Cocaine, Heroin AP 2011

  • PCP, or phencyclidine, is also known as "angel dust."

    1-Year-Old Tests Positive For Cocaine, PCP On West Side 2010

  • Additionally, Mr. Padilla was given drugs against his will, believed to be some form of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or phencyclidine (PCP), to act as a sort of truth serum during his interrogations.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Additionally, Mr. Padilla was given drugs against his will, believed to be some form of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or phencyclidine (PCP), to act as a sort of truth serum during his interrogations.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Additionally, Mr. Padilla was given drugs against his will, believed to be some form of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or phencyclidine (PCP), to act as a sort of truth serum during his interrogations.

    Balkinization 2006

  • The street drug phencyclidine (PCP), which blocks receptors for the glutamate molecule, produces schizophrenia's symptoms: psychosis, apathy, withdrawal and problems with memory and concentration.

    Silent Demons 2008

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