WordNet
n. a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception [syn: pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, anovulatory drug, anovulant]
Usage examples of "birth control pill".
Miss Pinch forced what appeared to be a birth control pill in his/her mouth.
Karla and I drove down the hill to Syntex, birthplace of the birth control pill, a little bit below Mom and Dad's house, down on Hillview Avenue - a 1970s Utopian, Andromeda Strainishly empty tech complex.
It was the day that I'd refilled my birth control pill prescription, and started taking it again.
During regular working hours, he does what he is paid to do, which is develop a birth control pill that takes all the pleasure out of sex, so teenagers won't copulate.
Women had been liberated by the advent of the birth control pill, and dope had erased any further prohibitions.
Just like the birth control pill had originally been invented for infertility.
The closest thing we've got to a birth control pill is infanticide!