sleeping pill

sleeping pill (plural sleeping pills)

1. (pharmacology) A pill or tablet having a soporific effect.
   • 1979 April 28, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower”, in Gay Community News, page 22:

     You are my favorite sleeping pill
     The secret bending of my waking will.
     You bring me peace, you bring me rest.
     Your gentle presence leaves me blest.

   • 2012, Thomas Gifford, Kiss Me Once, →ISBN:

     It was a little past ten that night when his nurse, Sylvia of the Bedpans, came tiptoeing in with sleeping pills on a little tray and told him that his friend, Detective Leary, had just been delivered to the emergency room in a meat wagon.

• sleeping tablet