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pill mills

pill mills is the plural of pill mill.

Meaning of pill mill

Noun

pill mill (plural pill mills)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) A clandestine operation where a medical worker illicitly offers prescription medication to patients in exchange for bribes.
    • Four men who helped Jeff and Chris George run their lucrative pill mills received sentences ranging from 9 months to 14 years today in federal court.2011, Jane Musgrave, “4 men sentenced in pill mill scheme”, in The Palm Beach Post, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2012

Questions about pill mills

What is pill mills the plural of?
Pill mills is the plural of pill mill.

Words near pill mills in the dictionary

  1. Pill Hill
  2. pill in the pocket
  3. pill mill
  4. pill millipede
  5. pill millipedes
  6. pill mills
  7. pill pocket
  8. pill popper
  9. pill poppers
  10. pill press
  11. pill presses

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