| 释义 |
lude; lud
noun
a tablet of the recreational drug methaqualone, best known as Quaaludes or, in a manner not inconsistent with the imprecision of the drug culture, any central nervous system depressant US, 1973
Quaalude was a brand name for methaqualone, a muscle relaxant and barbiturate substitute introduced in 1965 and made illegal in the US in 1984.- Still, millions choose to ignore the warnings, and relieve their anxieties with minor tranquilizers like Librium and Valium, or sedate their troubles with more powerful sedative phenobarbital or “purple hearts,” Quaaludes or “ludes,” and a host of other socalled “downers[.]” — Washington Post, p. A7, 30 July 1978
- All right. Just relax. Take a lude. Take a lude. — Manhattan, 1979
- The carpeted lobby was littered with fallen rainbows, dexis, bennies, ludes, speed, even some dust, though it had a bad rep these days[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, The Glitter Dome, p. 122, 1981
- Laugh at the thought of eating ludes / Laugh at the thought of sniffing glue / Always gonna keep in touch / Never want to use a crutch / I’ve got the straight edge. — Minor Threat, Straight Edge, 1983(?)
- Get some up in Boystown, New York Avenue, those cute guys had anything you wanted, knockout droups, percs, street ludes, all kinds of meth. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 131, 1985
- “You wanna lude, is that it?” He pulls out a Pez dispenser and pulls Daffy Ducks’ head back. — Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero, p. 21, 1985
- He tried to stop using heroin and then got into an even worse state with ludes and other tranquilizers. — Barry Hoskyns, Waiting For The Sun, p. 265, 1996
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