A chiefly British informal term for an oral contraceptive — what is more commonly called 'the pill' or 'the contraceptive pill.' The 'birth pill' phrasing is more explicit about the purpose (preventing birth) while maintaining a clinical enough tone to appear in both formal and casual contexts.
A chiefly British informal term for an oral contraceptive — what is more commonly called 'the pill' or 'the contraceptive pill.' The 'birth pill' phrasing is more explicit about the purpose (preventing birth) while maintaining a clinical enough tone to appear in both formal and casual contexts. While not the dominant term in everyday speech, it appears in health information materials and casual British conversation as a straightforward descriptor for hormonal contraceptive tablets.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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She'd been on the birth pill for years before deciding to come off it.
(chiefly, UK) A contraception capsule.