1. 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;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
designer drug
n 1: 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