a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.

something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured

Ingratitude is a bitter pill.

Slang . a tiresomely disagreeable person.

Sports Slang . a ball, esp. a baseball or golf ball.

the pill. birth-control pill.

pills, British Slang . billiards.

to dose with pills.

to form or make into pills.

Slang . to blackball.

to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater.

noun

bolus , dose , lozenge , medicine , pellet , pilule , tablet , troche , bore , drag * , nuisance , pain * , pain in the neck * , pest , trial * , ball , capsule , pastille , placebo