diet pill

noun

1. a tablet or capsule containing chemical substances that aid in reducing or controlling body weight, usually by suppressing the appetite.

Word History and Origins

Origin of diet pill¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

“I had been on the overweight, obese side, and then I had quickly seesawed to the very, very thin side—too thin. At this point in my life I was no better off, no more intelligent, and had no more knowledge than I did when I took that first diet pill in the sixth grade. Now it was time for me to try to find some balance, some middle ground, for the first time in my life.”

From Salon

“We did every product that you could imagine — from cupcake endorsements to a diet pill at the same time, to sneakers or things that I didn’t know enough about for them to be super-authentic to me,” the reality television star told The Times in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times

What viewers couldn’t know, but what she catalogs cheerfully in the book, are the drugs she’d taken that day: “a diet pill, a small amount of coke, two joints, six halves of Valium, which makes three, and a glass-and-a-half of wine. So far.”

From Los Angeles Times

When a nurse practitioner prescribed Mounjaro to Marcela Romero to lower her blood sugar in November 2022, she bristled at the idea of taking a “diet pill,” she said.

From Seattle Times

Notably, that systematic review found that nonprescribed diet pill use was significantly higher than the use of nonprescribed laxatives and diuretics for weight management.

From Salon