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yellow jacket
noun- a barbiturate or other central nervous system depressant, especially Nembutal US, 1952
- [W]e have a pretty complete exhibit of the little pills downtown. Bluejays, redbirds, yellow jackets, goofballs, and all the rest of the list. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 230, 1953
- Flora popped a couple of yellow jackets into her mouth and then swallowed hot coffee behind them to get a kick. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 87, 1958
- Eventually, I started taking Benzedrine and goofballs, yellow jackets. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 43, 1966
- They also take Amytal (“blue heaven”), Nembutal (“yellow jackets”) and Tuinal. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 216, 1967
- Movie broads gobbled up yellow jackets like they were jelly beans[.] — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 59, 1967
- I said, I’ll sweeten that deuce with a sawbuck if you could score for a few yellow jackets.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 268, 1969
- Two bottles of yellow jackets are on the floor. — Arthur Blessitt, Turned On to Jesus, p. 151, 1971
- [S]he seen what a struggle I was having on my own, that she would give me two yellowjackets [Nembutal] a night to try to make me sleep. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 110, 1972
- Well, let’s see. I still got some redbirds and yellowjackets. — Emmett Grogan, Final Score, p. 81, 1976
- The yellow jackets. The bennies. Whatever. — Robert Campbell, Sweet La-La Land, p. 199, 1990
- a high-velocity, hollow-nose, expanding bullet US
- “Stingers and yellowjackets,” Parrish said. “Hyper-velocity, hollow-nose expanders. The guy knew what he was doing.” — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 97, 1981
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