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goofball noun- a barbiturate used for non-medicinal purposes US, 1939
- Much more potent is a sleeping pill or “goofball” dissolved in a glass of beer. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 148, 1950
- Nembutals are the prostitutes’ favorite. Among initiates they are known as goof balls, or nemmies. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 117, 1951
- [O]f course I can’t sleep, I want free goofballs. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 325, 31 August 1951
- Lots of jive and goofballs, maybe a couple caps of Horse. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 56, 1952
- But he was always high on something – weed, benzedrine, or knocked out of his mind on “goof balls.” — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 26, 1953
- He gave me the address of a guy that peddles goof balls, though, but kee-rist, who wants to get hungup that way? — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 101, 1953
- Five-grain amytal. Goofballs. Tricky stuff. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 39, 1953
- [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
- That night Marylou took everything in the books; she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 148, 1957
- “Don’t goof with no goof-balls,” Juan remembered Seldom Seen telling him once. “You goof with them and pretty soon you’re riding the Horse.” — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 87, 1958
- I’ve got some goofballs and we can get a bottle of cough syrup. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 79, 1960
- Maybe if I picked up some goof balls from that drugstore? — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 239, 1961
- He was high on barbiturates, goofballs, GB’s. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 27, 1966
- “Doc,” Wanger said. “Look, Doc, how about a goofball?” — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 59, 1967
- I encountered a young man named Joe who had been introduced to me as a connection for practically anything – pot, goofballs, amphetamine pills of various kinds and heroin. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 131, 1980
- a mixture of heroin and cocaine US, 1969
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 209, 2002
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 293, 2003
- a habitual smoker of marijuana SOUTH AFRICA
- Pete is such a goofball. He’s always pulling goofed actions — Surfrikan Slang, 2004
- a silly and/or dim-witted person US, 1944
- Hey, goofball, are you listening to me? — Robert Gover, Poorboy at the Party, p. 91, 1966
- He had pinned his grandiose hope of redemption on his last homemade bomb, only to see it claim the wrong victim, some goofball news reporter. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 294, 1986
- a central nervous system stimulant US
- As for my not being in shape, it was The Head who first got me the green goof balls – when I was eighteen – to kill my appetite. — Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, p. 316, 1966
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