Placebolic 

When you’re convinced you have COVID and you think you can finally tackle celery.

How are your taste buds?
Better... don’t really know what happened there.

Maybe placebolic

Placebolic by gyal dem gem January 17, 2021

Placeboi 

A male fan obsessed with the English rock band Placebo. Especially Brian molko.

Placeboi's usually dress in black and wear eyeliner. They unabashedly wait hours to be front row at placebo concerts.

Placeboi by bahhh678 March 5, 2015

placebic 

Having the properties of a placebo.

Reading the morning paper as part of my routine is placebic. It doesn't actually make my day better, but I feel like it does

placebo

placebic by The Unibrow May 2, 2010

Placeboism 

Placeboism was founded by freakbymistake and drink_u_pretty_ to honour and worship the band, Placebo. We believe in polytheism because we worship THREE Gods: Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt

Dear Gods that are Placebo please make my mother buy me your album for my birthday

Placeboism by DeeDee Ramone January 2, 2005

placebocism 

first introduced by J.M. Jones a New England based paranormal investigator it is an exorcism ritual perfomed to remove a demon where non is actually present using instead the deception to cure a client.

With no demon actually present we prepared the room for the placebocism.

placebocism by therealdeal1 April 27, 2009

placeboing 

placeboing is when you take something you think is a drug, but isnt, and instead of tripping on a drug you trip out because your brain thinks you took a drug. causes anything from mild paranoia to city-wide power outtages.

Dude, i ate this shroom i found on some shit and went crazy. didnt see any purple ninja unicorns though..

You were probably placeboing dude.

placeboing by wishiwasbritish May 18, 2010

Placebification

The act of explaining any positive effect from non‑conventional treatments (acupuncture, meditation, prayer, herbalism) as “just placebo.” Common in hard‑narrow scientism and anti‑pseudoscience activism. Placebification dismisses both patient reports and physiological measurements that show real effects (e.g., acupuncture for pain). It treats placebo as a dismissive label, ignoring that placebo effects are genuine, clinically relevant, and deserve study. It also ignores that many approved drugs have small effect sizes above placebo.

Placebification Example: “She experienced pain relief from acupuncture; he placebified it as ‘just placebo, so it doesn’t count.’ He didn’t realize that placebo is a real, measurable, ethical treatment response.”

Placebification by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal June 5, 2026