TRANQUILLIZE, TRANQUILLIZER
ADJECTIVES
► TRANKED under the influence of tranquillizers → 1972 US sl.
NOUNS
► ACE one single pill of tranquillizer, amphetamine, or barbiturate → 1930s drug culture sl.
► DEBS tranquillizers, depressants, barbiturates → 1970s US drug culture sl.
► EGGS tranquillizers, temazepam → 1980s sl.
► GOOFBALL a tranquillizer, a barbiturate → 1940s drug culture sl.
► HAPPY PILL a tranquillizer → 1956 sl.
► JACKETS Nembutal, a tranquillizer → 1950s drug culture sl.
► LUDE methaqualone, usually Quaalude™, a tranquillizer → M20 US drug culture sl.
► MICKEY ► MICKY a tranquillizer → 20C drug culture sl.
► MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPER any tranquillizer → 1977 US sl.
► QUAS Quaaludes™, a tranquillizer → M20 US drug culture sl.
► SLOW-EM-UP any one of a variety of tranquillizers or barbiturates; sometimes used by addicts to calm the effects of amphetamines → 1970s African-American sl.
► TRANG ► TRANX a tranquillizer, any central nervous system depressant → 1971 US sl.
► TRANK ► TRANQ a tranquillizer → 1967 sl.
► V the tranquillizer Valium™ → 1984 US sl.
► VAL a tablet of diazepam (trade name Valium™), an anti-anxiety agent → 1986 US sl.
► VALI ► VALLIE ► VALLY the tranquillizer Valium™ → 1996 UK sl.
► VALS the tranquillizer Valium™ → 1986 sl.
► VOLUME the tranquillizer Valium™ → 1970s sl.
VERBS
► BECALM to tranquillize, to assuage, to mitigate, to soothe → 1613
► HALCYON to tranquillize, to calm → 1616 obs.
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