Miltown

Proper noun

Miltown (countable and uncountable, plural Miltowns)

1. (trademark) The drug meprobamate.
   • Bored with the emptiness of her life, she was said to be increasingly turning to the consolations of “mother's little helper”—new lines of tranquilizing drugs, such as Librium and Miltown, meant to soothe the female anxieties that Betty Friedan decried in her bestselling The Feminine Mystique.2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 58
   • Hollywood had discovered Miltown — and from then on, the pill became a cultural phenomenon.2017 August 7, “Miltown: a game-changing drug you've probably never heard of”, in CBC

   Synonyms:

   Equanil