dexedrine

English

Alternative forms

• Dexedrine

Etymology

Brand name.

Noun

dexedrine (countable and uncountable, plural dexedrines)

1. A brand name for dextroamphetamine.
   • 1968, Joan Didion, “A preface”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:

     I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece.

   • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 53:

     […] —and then all soaring on—what?—acid, peyote, morning-glory seeds, which were very hell to choke down, billions of bilious seeds mulching out into sodden dandelions in your belly, bloated—but soaring!—or IT-290, or dexedrine, benzedrine, methedrine— Speed!—or speed and grass— […]

   • 1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 52:

     Later I learned that the pills were Dexedrine, which Elvis had first discovered in the Army. A sergeant had given several men pills to help them stay awake while on guard duty.

Derived terms

• dexy

Anagrams

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