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mother's little helper

mother's little helper noun: a tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.

Noun

mother's little helper (plural mother's little helpers)

  1. (euphemistic, slang) A tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.
    • 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

Forms of mother's little helper

pluralmother's little helpers

Questions about mother's little helper

What does mother's little helper mean?
Mother's little helper means a tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.
What part of speech is mother's little helper?
Mother's little helper is a noun.
What is the plural of mother's little helper?
The plural of mother's little helper is mother's little helpers.

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