Definition of "alka-seltzer" []

• A commerical antacid; -- the tablets dissolve in water to give an effervescent solution. (noun)

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• "They have a lot to answer for, but she will wink, and he will blink, and I will take an alka-seltzer."
• "Not that I don't hold with sentimentality: I collect useful and useless things with little discrimination, I litter my apartment with novels I've already read and choke my purses with beach glass, marbles, and Russian alka-seltzer."
• "It's time not to listen to what our gut says, it's time to give it some alka-seltzer and get it to shut up so we can think."