Quaalude
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- noun
- /ˈkwāˌlüd/
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- You want a Quaalude?
- take a Quaalude
- giving quaaludes
- using quaaludes
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Watch on YouTubeSo I wake up I and it's like, it's like the Quaalude moment from from Wall Street.
- So I wake up I and it's like, it's like the Quaalude moment from from Wall Street.
- Give me a quaalude, give you the Quaalude, and give me the Quaalude before it's like a rope mechanism.
Examples
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Who hid the quaaludes from me?
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A Quaalude or two now and then.
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That was not a Quaalude you gave me.
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Another Quaalude, she'll love me in the morning.
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People are doing quaaludes, men, women, right there.
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I mean, it does make most people look as though they've taken a quaalude.
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Two drinks, half a Quaalude later, I was at an all-you-can eat buffet.
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He was already making so much money selling Quaaludes, he'd become the Quaalude king of Bayside.
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The Quaalude, or lude, as it is commonly referred to, was first synthesized in 1951 by an Indian doctor, that's dots, not feathers, as a sedative, and was prescribed to stressed-out housewives with steep disorders.
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Many celebrities openly discussed their use of Quaalude during the 1970s.
Synonyms
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A medicine or chemical that treats illness and sometimes changes how someone feels
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A drug taken for pleasure that changes how you think and can cause addiction or harm
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A strong sleeping drug once given by doctors but now often taken illegally
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A medicine that calms the brain, reduces worry, and makes you sleep
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quaalude comes from the brand name for the drug methaqualone. The name takes qual from methaqualone and was made to sound like lull ('to calm' or 'to quiet'), so it helps you remember it was used as a sleeping pill and tranquilizer.