placebo

1) A pill that contains nothing medically useful or harmful for the body, but is still meant to treat you using the placebo effect, which is
2) an as yet unproven effect where the body cures itself in the belief that it is going to be cured.

The placebo shows a success rate in nearly one third of the people it was tested on.

by Gunkglumb June 02, 2005

nitro

add an extra thrust to a vehicle, by supplying a small shot nitro fuel to the engine.

a nitro later I broke almost all my ribs.

by Gunkglumb June 13, 2005