Dictionary

dexedrine en · NOUN

Etymology

Brand name.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A brand name for dextroamphetamine.
   • I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece. 1968, Joan Didion, “A preface”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
   • Later I learned that the pills were Dexedrine, which Elvis had first discovered in the Army. A sergeant had given several men pills to help them stay awake while on guard duty. 1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 52:
   • […]—and then all soaring on—what?—acid, peyote, morning-glory seeds, which were very hell to choke down, billions of bilious seeds mulching out into sodden dandelions in your belly, bloated—but soaring!—or IT-290, or dexedrine, benzedrine, methedrine— Speed!—or speed and grass—[…] 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 60:

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Deriveds

dexy