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red
noun- any central nervous system depressant, especially a capsule of Seconal or another barbiturate US, 1979
- The next step up the scale is Seconal (“reds” or “red devils”), a bar-biturate normally used as a sedative. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 216, 1966
- “They way they put it is that they drop whites to get out of bed in the morning, or whenever they get up to go to work, and drop reds to go to sleep,” Sweeney reported at the conference. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 5, 11 October 1966
- They walking in fours and kicking in doors; dropping Reds and busting heads. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (letter dated August 15, 1965), p. 27, 1968
- What in the world ever became of sweet Jane / She lost her sparkle you know she isn’t the same / Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine — The Grateful Dead, Trucking, November 1970
- Someody else do reds, and everyboy share the laughing gas to tie the whole thing together, in honor of Eddie’s passing. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 123, 1971
- He has taken reds and now is slumped in a chair, eyes and feet twisted. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, p. 73, 1973
- I gave her a couple of reds and rocked her into fulfil sleep — Iceberg Slim(Robert Beck), Airlight Wille and Me, 1979
- [R]eady to go pick him up from the Troubador and lie there next to him all night still in all my clothes, just to make sure nobody took many reds. — Eve Babitz, L.A. Woman, p. 142, 1982
- After another day and night of dysoxin-methedrine injections with Gloria, followed in the later hours by palmloads of seconal barbiturate, previously and herewith referred to as “reds,” I woke upon the floor[.] — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 35, 1987
- [I]t was enough to gas up the T-bird and score some reds. — Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease, p. 266, 1993
- Barbiturates are also known as BARBS, BLUES, REDS, and SEKKIES. — Macfarlane, Macfarlane and Robson, The User, p. 97, 1996
- marijuana US
A generic term for golden-red marijuana, clipping PANAMA RED - — Ernest L. Abel, A Marijuana Dictionary, p. 85, 1982
- morphine US
- They ordered cocaine or morphine by the pieces (ounces) and used the dope peddler’s slang or code terms, red or blue identifying morphine or cocaine. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, p. 147, 1945
- blood US, 2002
Professional wrestling usage. - in a deck of playing cards, any heart or diamond US
A flush of hearts or diamonds is referred to as “all red”. - — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 74, 1988
- in American casinos, a five-dollar betting chip US
- — Thomas F. Hughes, Dealing Casino Blackjack, p. 74, 1982
- a penny US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 176, 1950
- a liberal; a socialist; a Marxist; a Marxist-Leninist; a Maoist; a Trotskyite; a communist; an anarchist UK, 1848
▶ in the red
in debt UK, 1926
From the use of red ink to show debt in account ledgers.- [N]ot only as skint as a kipper’s backbone, but over £150 in the red[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 66, 1956
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