black pill

Meanings

1. An opium pill.
2. A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it.
3. A hypothetical pill with a specific probability of causing death, which one is offered a large sum of money in order to take, as a philosophical dilemma.
4. A traditional Tibetan remedy.
5. A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, or those who are pessimistic about social or political issues.
6. The belief that genetics and appearance determine one's destiny and that effort (especially regarding the sexual marketplace) is futile.
7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, pill.

1. To cause another to adopt a nihilistic philosophy.
2. To accept that genetics and appearance determine one's destiny and that effort (especially regarding the sexual marketplace) is futile.

1. A suburb in Mumbles community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6190).

Etymology

Nihilism sense influenced by preexisting red pill. See there for further explanation.