peanut pill
n.— «A controversial euthanasia campaigner nicknamed Dr Death is to run suicide seminars in Australia where people will learn how to make their own “death tablet.” Dr Philip Nitschke says that the so-called Peanut Pill—named after a slang term for barbiturates—will be “more reliable and far more effective” than other methods of suicide.» —“‘Doctor Death’ to teach Australians how to make their own suicide pills” by Anna Gizowska in Sydney, Australia Telegraph (U.K.) Jan. 23, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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