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Miltowns

Miltowns is the plural of Miltown.

Meaning of 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
    Synonyms:
    Equanil

Questions about Miltowns

What is Miltowns the plural of?
Miltowns is the plural of Miltown.

Words near Miltowns in the dictionary

  1. Miltonizing
  2. Miltonvale
  3. Miltonvale Park
  4. Miltos
  5. Miltown
  6. Miltowns
  7. milts
  8. miltsick
  9. miltsiekte
  10. miltwaste
  11. miltwastes

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