love potion

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love potion (plural love potions)

  1. A drink supposed to have the magic power to make the drinker fall in love with a specified person.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 82:
      One love potion was composed of the powdered navel string of a new-born baby boy.
    • 1959, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (lyrics and music), “Love Potion No. 9”, performed by The Clovers:
      I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth
      You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
      She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
      Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine.

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