phencyclidine hydrochloride

1. 1.

   a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen

   SynonymsphencyclidinePCPangel dust

   Broaderhallucinogen

Questions about phencyclidine hydrochloride

What does phencyclidine hydrochloride mean?

phencyclidine hydrochloride means "a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen".

What is another word for phencyclidine hydrochloride?

Close synonyms include phencyclidine, PCP, angel dust. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phencyclidine hydrochloride a common word?

phencyclidine hydrochloride 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.