dexedrine

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Brand name.

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dexedrine (countable and uncountable, plural dexedrines)

  1. A brand name for dextroamphetamine.
    • 1968, Joan Didion, “A preface”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
      I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece.
    • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 53:
      […] —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— […]
    • 1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 52:
      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.

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