knockout drops

1. 1.

   chloral hydrate in combination with alcohol; usually administered surreptitiously to make the drinker unconscious

   Broaderchloral hydrate

   NarrowerMickey Finn

   plural

Questions about knockout drops

What does knockout drops mean?

knockout drops means "chloral hydrate in combination with alcohol; usually administered surreptitiously to make the drinker unconscious".

Is knockout drops a common word?

knockout drops is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.