pill

Coordinate term: capsule

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

"It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill."

You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. … And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.

One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.

"Strike two!" bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines.