Definition of "phencyclidine" [phencyclidine]

• A drug, C17H25N, used in veterinary medicine as an anesthetic and illegally as a hallucinogen; PCP. (noun)

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• "Employees at Livermore, one of the federal government's top science labs, handle as many as 42 different kinds of dangerous drugs, including black tar heroin, cocaine, phencyclidine and steroids."
• "The report said European officials last year identified for the first time derivatives of two well-established drugs—the anesthetics ketamine and phencyclidine, or PCP."
• "PCP, or phencyclidine, is also known as "angel dust.""