med meaning (informal): definition, quotations

med

noun

/mɛːd/

In plural, Informal Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.

He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.
Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant? Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin. Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left! Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:

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Take a med. […] BECAUSE you took a med you did not have a full-blown panic attack and faint.2015, Jennifer Shannon, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry & Panic, Oakland, Calif.: Instant Help Books, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:
“What meds?” “It's a long story.” “What meds?” “He's bipolar, Mark. Diagnosed a few years back.”2018, John Grisham, The Reckoning, Anchor, →ISBN:
“I'd been trying to get my anti-depressants right and taking the meds,” he said. “That was my feeling at the time — of worrying if this was the right choice,” he added.2023 January 16, Emma Bowman, quoting KC Green, “A decade on, the ‘This is fine’ creator wants to put the famous dog to rest”, in NPR:

Abbreviation, Clipping, Informal Clipping of medicine, as an academic subject.

Informal A medic; a doctor.

A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.2012, Elizabeth Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942, page 41:

Derived terms: medcouple, medkit, medlab, med-peds, med pour, medspeak, off one's meds, pre-med, transmed

verb

UK, Dialectal, Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of might.

You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC: