Cough syrup
Medicine and cough syrup are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Medicine" instead a noun phrase "Cough syrup".
Medicine
Medicine noun - A substance or preparation used to treat disease.
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Cough syrup and medicine are semantically related. You can use "Cough syrup" instead a noun "Medicine".
Both terms in one sentence
- Norman in S.S.D.D treats hangovers with Jägermeister, calls it his medicine (though it does taste like cough syrup, as Richard pointed out).
Source: Hair of the Dog - The commercials for Buckley's Cough Syrup, with the tagline "It tastes awful... And it works." and consisting entirely of people standing around and trying their medicine, and then making weird faces.
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