Quaalude

See also: quaalude

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Supposedly a blend of quiet +‎ Maalox +‎ interlude.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkweɪluːd/

Proper noun

Quaalude

  1. (pharmacology) A proprietary name for methaqualone.

Noun

Quaalude (plural Quaaludes)

  1. A dose of this drug, sometimes taken recreationally.
    Synonyms: methaqualone, lude, mandrake
    • 2013, Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street, spoken by Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio):
      On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my "back pain", Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine... Well, because it's awesome.
    • 2017 September 30, Ross Douthat, “Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner”, in New York Times‎:
      Hef was the grinning pimp of the sexual revolution, with quaaludes for the ladies and Viagra for himself — a father of smut addictions and eating disorders, abortions and divorce and syphilis, a pretentious huckster who published Updike stories no one read while doing flesh procurement for celebrities, a revolutionary whose revolution chiefly benefited men much like himself.

References
  1. “Dropping the Last 'Lude”, in Time‎ (in German), 1983 November 28, archived from the original on 2008-12-20

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