Horlicks
Horlicks is the name of a milky hot drink claimed to promote sleep when drunk at bedtime. It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom and India.
In some countries, such as the Philippines, Horlicks was also sold as milky-chocolate-flavored disks in paper packets, which were then eaten as candy.
The product's name has entered the vernacular due to an advertising campaign in which the word "Horlicks" was used as a substitute profanity (such as, for example "bollocks"); given its original usage in this context however it conveys a much milder connotation than any actual curse.
The term was used in July 2003 by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to describe irregularities in the preparation and provenance of a dossier regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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