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purple hearts

purple hearts is the plural of purple heart.

Meaning of purple heart

Noun

purple heart (plural purple hearts)

  1. The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally.
  2. (historical, slang) A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s.
    • Detective Peter Goodall said the source of the tablets had not been traced. "Purple heart" or drinamyl tablets, were a stimulant drug and habit-forming.1963 March 27, “Drug pills eaten like sweets, says detective”, in The Guardian

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Noun capitalized: Purple Hearts

Purple Hearts

  1. (plural) plural of Purple Heart

Questions about purple hearts

What is purple hearts the plural of?
Purple hearts is the plural of purple heart.
What part of speech is purple hearts?
Purple hearts is a noun.

Words near purple hearts in the dictionary

  1. purple hat therapies
  2. purple hat therapy
  3. Purple Hawke
  4. purple haze
  5. purple heart
  6. purple hearts
  7. purple helmet
  8. purple helmets
  9. purple heron
  10. purple herons
  11. purple ivory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purple hearts (page history and authors); Purple Hearts (page history and authors); purple heart (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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