Home » Dictionary » black aspirin

black aspirin

black aspirin
 n.— «“Don’t you do that in front of the doctor!” he ordered the unconscious man, and I have little doubt that he would have kicked him hard and often—in short, given him what used to be called in prison warders’ parlance “the black aspirin,” which is to say the prison warder’s boot—if I had turned my back for an instant.» —“The Evils of Ideology” by Theodore Dalrymple FrontPage Mag. Sept. 6, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Further reading

Hot Gossip (episode #1609)

Gossip goes by many names: the poop, the scoop, the lowdown, the dope, the scuttlebutt, the 411, the grapes, the gore, and hot tea. Plus, John Donne’s love poems are among the greatest in the English language, even as they’re famously...

One Who Spreads Words for Gossip?

We dish about the many terms for “gossip,” including hot tea, scuttlebutt, the scoop, the 411, the lowdown, the dirt, the scoop, hot goss, the poop, the dope, the T. In prison slang, grapes means “gossip,” and particularly...

Recent posts