Wiktionary
n. (context informal medicine English) A psychoactive medication, especially one administered by injection, which supposedly renders a person cooperative and disposed to respond honestly to questions.
WordNet
n. an intravenous anesthetic drug that has a hypnotic effect; induces relaxation and weakens inhibitions; is believed to induce people to talk freely [syn: truth drug]
Wikipedia
A "truth serum" is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive medications used to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise. They have been used in the course of investigating civil and criminal cases, and for the evaluation of psychotic patients in the practice of psychiatry. That application was first documented by Dr. William Bleckwenn in 1930, and it still has selected uses today. In the latter context, the controlled administration of intravenous hypnotic medications is called " narcosynthesis" or "narcoanalysis". It may be used to procure diagnostically – or therapeutically – vital information, and to provide patients with a functional respite from catatonia or mania.
Truth Serum is an independent comic book series created, written and drawn by author Jon Adams.
Truth Serum is the debut extended play (EP) by Swedish recording artist Tove Lo. It was released in Sweden as a digital download on 3 March 2014. The EP includes the singles " Habits (Stay High)" and " Out of Mind". The EP has peaked at number 13 on the Swedish Albums Chart.
Usage examples of "truth serum".
His parched throat, however, was his last defense against the malignant influence of the truth serum, so he knew he couldn’.
And he had discovered one certain nerve that enabled him to extract information as easily as if the other were under the influence of truth serum.
DOC SAVAGE saw the evidence in the shape of knife-sliced tyings that told him Sen Gat and the other truth serum victims had been liberated.
When I next got the chance, I'd slip some truth serum into his tapioca.
Under the effect of the truth serum, the man naturally had given away some details.
The OSS and later the CIA continued the search and tried other drugs as a truth serum.
The bronze man had been employing the information secured from the fellow who had tried to shoot him, while the latter was under the influence of the truth serum.
Later, he would administer truth serum to his captive and learn the real identity of the one who had employed this fellow painted up to look like one of the madmen with the hideous red spots.
If they injected him with the truth serum, he'd probably spill the beans about the Family and the Home and the whole shebang.
After destroying the interrogator droid in his cell and taking its truth serum capsule, Maul rages through the Bartokk's fortress, killing many of them and using the truth serum on one to learn the story behind their assignment.
Enough to set aside your principles and use a truth serum, or a memory-sifting device?
At nine o'clock Teffler gave him the second, smaller dose of the truth serum—.