strychnine• I brought my trick-or-treat candy to the school to check for razorblades and pins and strychnine.• Striking a match in a gas-filled room, sipping a glass of vodka and strychnine, that's what I call dangerous.• Whiskey with strychnine was said to produce an exceptionally crazy drunk.
Originstrychnine
(1800-1900)FrenchLatinstrychnos type of poisonous plant, from Greek