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bluey
noun- a capsule of Drinamyl, a combination of amphetamine and barbiturate UK
- The demand for the minor drugs: Pot (marijuana), Purple Hearts and Blueies (Drinamyl), Black Bombers, Prels (Preludin), Bennies and Dexies (Benzedrine and Dexedrine) is almost unlimited. — Sunday Telegraph, 20 October 1963
- a methylated spirit drinker UK, 1961
From the colour of the spirit. - a five pound note (£5) UK
From the colour. - “Drop him a bluey,” he said... a fiver changed hands. — Sunday Express, 31 January 1982
- It costs me a bluey every time I come across him. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 221, 2001
- an airmail letter UK
Gulf war usage. - — American Speech, p. 384, Winter 1991: “Among the new words”
- a blue blanket as used by itinerants for carrying possessions; a swag AUSTRALIA, 1878
- Mum, helping patients out from a boat when it reached Kooweeup platform, found Dad’s bluey round an old lady who had only a thin nightdress beneath it. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 111, 1969
- Wake up, Col, the dogs are pissing on your bluey. — Alexander Buzo, The Roy Murphy Show, p. 103, 1970
- a summons AUSTRALIA, 1909
In late C19 called “a piece of blue paper”. - The object of the sport was, therefore, to spring a “bluey” on the victim when he least expected it. — Kerry Cue, Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags, p. 53, 1983
- — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 52, 1986
- a portable gas stove used by Royal Marines in Northern Ireland UK, 1984
- a pornographic film AUSTRALIA
- — Thommo, The Dictionary of Australian Swearing and Sex Sayings, p. 18, 1985
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