PILL PUSHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pill pusher mean? 

• PILL PUSHER (noun)
  The noun PILL PUSHER has 1 sense:

1. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

  Familiarity information: PILL PUSHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILL PUSHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apothecary; chemist; druggist; pharmacist; pill pusher; pill roller

Hypernyms ("pill pusher" is a kind of...):

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pill pusher"):

pharmaceutical chemist; pharmacologist (someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects))