Tranquilizer Definition & Meaning

tranquilizer
noun
  1. a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity

"Tranquilizer" in song lyrics

See how tranquilizer is used in real songs:

  • "Touch the equalizer, get shot by the tranquilizer"
    Beatnuts — Stone Crazy
  • "In jail the shank survivor, the couldn't control me with a tranquilizer"
    Children of the Corn (Killah Cam'Ron, Mase, Bloodshed) — Fair One (Part 2)
  • "Lyric like a elephant tranquilizer"
    Hieroglyphics — See Delight

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