Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun designer_drug

1 sense of designer drug

Sense 1
designer drug -- (a psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws; mimics the effects of a banned drug; law was revised in 1986 to ban designer drugs)
       => psychoactive drug, mind-altering drug, consciousness-altering drug, psychoactive substance -- (a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions)