Talk:pill

RFV
Original rfv was by user:Connel MacKenzie 2006-06-09T12:00:08. RFV is for sense 4 --> (colloquial) A ball. Perhaps this should be merged with sense 6 (ball again, but specific to baseball?) I can't seem to dig up any hits that aren't baseball related. Jeffqyzt 05:49, 17 August 2006 (UTC) I have changed the definition to a US slang: A baseball. Do we not think that the pill should have its own entry? Andrew massyn 07:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

RFM
[[the pill]] was just created. We already had "(informal, definite and uncountable) Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill" at [[pill]]. Which should be the lemma? (Note also [[on the pill]], which has a definition that can't actually be plugged into its usex.) - -sche (discuss) 03:09, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * [[pill]] clearly seems to be the lemma, but we need to help users find the right definition.
 * Can't we make the pill a redirect to the sense you indicate pill? Let's make  earn its keep.
 * on has the definition: "Regularly taking (a drug)", which makes on the pill SoP. But that is not a useful target for any redirect, so on the pill can only be redirected to the senseid'ed definition of pill, which should have "on the pill" in a usex, I suppose. DCDuring TALK 04:12, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * go on the pill might also be a good redirect to the same destination. DCDuring TALK 04:22, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Not really sure if this needs discussing, yes redirect (redirect is unambiguous so can be kept) and use . Mglovesfun (talk) 23:46, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ - -sche (discuss) 00:42, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Possible missing slang sense: military doctor
John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) gives pill as military slang for a doctor. Equinox ◑ 10:57, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Baseball
I did not think the use of the word for a baseball was "archaic" since it is in current use and there is a quotation from 2002. I removed the tag. Wastrel Way (talk) 04:25, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Eric