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mandrake noun- a tablet of the recreational drug methaqualone, best known as Quaaludes US
From Mandrax, the trade name for a synthetic non-barbiturate sedative consisting of methaqualone and a small amount of the antihistamine diphenhydramine. - By 1972 it was one of the most popular drugs of abuse in the United States and was known as love drug, heroin for lovers, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, sopors, sopes, ludes, mandrakes and quacks. — Marilyn Carroll and Gary Gallo, Methaqualone, 1985
- a sexually aggressive male homosexual US
- — Anon., King Smut’s Wet Dreams Interpreted, 1978
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