designer drug

Other forms: designer drugs

Definitions of designer drug
  1. noun
    a psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws; mimics the effects of a banned drug; law was revised in 1986 to ban designer drugs
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    type of:
    consciousness-altering drug, mind-altering drug, psychoactive drug, psychoactive substance
    a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions
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