knockout drops
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- noun
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droga de sumisión
- When the kettle whistled at him, he poured the census taker a cup of instant coffee and added a few knockout drops from a small bottle that stood on his spice rack.
Examples
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He was caught trying to use knockout drops on an unsuspecting guest at the party.
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"Not with them knockout drops in 'em.
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Would knockout drops work on a demon?
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And G-2 should pour knockout drops into the water supply.
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The bartender secretly added knockout drops to the woman's drink, making her lose consciousness.
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She warned her friends about the danger of knockout drops that could render someone unconscious.
Synonyms
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To secretly put a drug into someone's drink to make them unconscious
Antonyms
How Sedating
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'knockout' (causing unconsciousness) with 'drops' (small doses of liquid), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it is a liquid given to render someone unconscious. This is a regular, compositional noun-noun formation and follows a cross-linguistically common pattern, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
The phrase knockout drops comes from the picture of small drops of liquid that knock out a person. One popular story says criminals would slip a few drops into a drink so the victim fell 'unconscious', so today the phrase means 'a liquid secretly given to make someone unconscious'.