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Quaalude

Quaalude

10 9.9
A sleeping pill once given by doctors that calms people and is often used illegally
  • noun
  • /ˈkwāˌlüd/
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: Quaalude
  • You want a Quaalude?
  • take a Quaalude
  • giving quaaludes
  • using quaaludes

So I wake up I and it's like, it's like the Quaalude moment from from Wall Street.

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Examples

  • Who hid the quaaludes from me?

    Fiction book (2000)
  • A Quaalude or two now and then.

  • That was not a Quaalude you gave me.

  • Another Quaalude, she'll love me in the morning.

  • People are doing quaaludes, men, women, right there.

  • I mean, it does make most people look as though they've taken a quaalude.

  • Two drinks, half a Quaalude later, I was at an all-you-can eat buffet.

  • He was already making so much money selling Quaaludes, he'd become the Quaalude king of Bayside.

  • 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.

  • Many celebrities openly discussed their use of Quaalude during the 1970s.

Synonyms

drug
vsQuaalude
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A medicine or chemical that treats illness and sometimes changes how someone feels

is a particular former prescription substance now chiefly known for misuse
drug of abuse
vsQuaalude
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1 5.8

A drug taken for pleasure that changes how you think and can cause addiction or harm

was prescribed medically at first but later became widely misused
methaqualone
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1 9.9

A strong sleeping drug once given by doctors but now often taken illegally

is the same substance but commonly called by a trade name
sedative-hypnotic drug
vsQuaalude
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1 5.4

A medicine that calms the brain, reduces worry, and makes you sleep

is that particular former prescription substance known mainly for nonmedical use

Surface Forms

Quaalude singular
Quaaludes plural

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.