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The abbreviation that turns 'medication' into a word you can say before coffee.
means A clipped, casual shorthand for a pill or dose of medicine — or, in plural, a stand-in for the whole shelf of prescriptions someone takes.
from Simply a shortened form of 'medicine'/'medication', part of a long English habit of lopping the ends off long clinical words to make them fit in a sentence (think 'doc' for doctor, 'meds' following the same lazy logic as 'vac' for vacation). The clipping likely spread through hospital and pharmacy slang before settling into everyday speech, with no single inventor — just the ordinary erosion of a word worn smooth by constant use.
- plural flex
- meds covers pills, shots, and everything in between
- med vs med
- also slang for Mediterranean, context does the heavy lifting
- etymology
- clipped from medicine, laziness as linguistic innovation
- school sense
- med school never means studying the sea