Rogaine

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Rogaine

1. A brand of hair product containing minoxidil for the treatment of male-pattern hair loss.
   • 1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker‎:

     When I go back to New York, some of my friends seem to be layered with drugs, from the top down, like a pousse-café: Rogaine on top, then Prozac, then Xanax, then Viagra. . . .

   • 1999, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Fight Club (motion picture), spoken by Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt):

     What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.

   • 2007, Ingrid Michaelson (lyrics and music), “The Way I Am”:

     I'd buy you Rogaine / When you start losing all your hair / Sew on patches / To all you tear

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