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Percocet

/ˈpɜɹkəˌsɛt/

Percocet proper noun: a brand name for an analgesic combination drug containing oxycodone and paracetamol, often used for recreational purposes.

Proper noun

Percocet (countable and uncountable, plural Percocets)

  1. A brand name for an analgesic combination drug containing oxycodone and paracetamol, often used for recreational purposes.
    • Listen. You give 'em a Percocet, two Vicodin and a couple of beers, and the panties drop. It's very nice.1999, W. Peter Iliff, Varsity Blues, spoken by Charlie Tweeder (Scott Caan)
    • They ingest Ambien, Seroquel, LSD, Adderall, Oxycodone, cocaine, Flexeril, Percocet, psilocybin mushrooms and codeine.2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Synonyms of Percocet

Forms of Percocet

pluralPercocets

Questions about Percocet

What does Percocet mean?
Percocet means a brand name for an analgesic combination drug containing oxycodone and paracetamol, often used for recreational purposes.
What part of speech is Percocet?
Percocet is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Percocet?
Percocet is pronounced /ˈpɜɹkəˌsɛt/.

Words near Percocet in the dictionary

  1. Percival's cattleya
  2. Percle
  3. Percles
  4. perclose
  5. percloses
  6. Percocet
  7. Percocets
  8. percoid
  9. percoidean
  10. percoids
  11. percolate

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