Ambien

English

Noun

Ambien (plural Ambiens)

1. Trade name of zolpidem, a medication most widely known as a treatment for insomnia.
   • 2009, “Empire State of Mind”, in The Blueprint 3, performed by Jay-Z:

     The city never sleeps / Better slip you an Ambien

   • 2010, Patricia Morrisroe, Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, page 119:

     But Eckleburg is powerless against her, so I take an Ambien, and then, at 2 AM, the New York City Department of Transportation decides it's the perfect time to rip up the street.

   • 2011, Jonathan Handel, Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age, page 389:

     Silicon Valley is not going to suddenly take an Ambien and stop innovating.

   • 2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     They ingest Ambien, Seroquel, LSD, Adderall, Oxycodone, cocaine, Flexeril, Percocet, psilocybin mushrooms and codeine.

Derived terms

• Ambien walrus

Anagrams

• benami, bimane