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Nuprin

Nuprin noun: brand name for ibuprofen.

Noun

Nuprin (countable and uncountable, plural Nuprins or Nuprin)

  1. Brand name for ibuprofen.
    • […]I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if...1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148

Forms of Nuprin

pluralNuprins
pluralNuprin

Origin of Nuprin

Marketing name.

Questions about Nuprin

What does Nuprin mean?
Nuprin means brand name for ibuprofen.
What part of speech is Nuprin?
Nuprin is a noun.
What is the plural of Nuprin?
The plural of Nuprin is Nuprins.

Words near Nuprin in the dictionary

  1. nupharamines
  2. nupharin
  3. nuplex
  4. nuplexes
  5. Nupoid
  6. Nuprin
  7. nupson
  8. nupsons
  9. nuptial
  10. nuptial act
  11. nuptial acts

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