What is "quaalude"

Usage examples of "quaalude".

The cop inside glanced at my card, then looked up -- fixing me with a heavy-lidded Quaalude stare for just an instant, then nodded and pushed his buzzer to open the gate.

I had been in a quaalude coma, I would have sat bolt upright, in sudden stunned awareness of the threat.

I sat listening to the pulse of one magnificent Quaalude hangover throb between any ears.

Ping-pong championship popping in your brain, go slow and easy, watch your eyelids come down in a twenty-minute blink, go Quaalude crazy, swallow those pills with Cuervo, Lone Star, or that essence of East Texas corruption, Wild Turkey liquor.

Rorer 714, the identification code stamped on every Quaalude tablet that rolled off the assembly line.

We were where nobody knew we were, and the breeze felt good and the air smelled clean, and when Jim took a Quaalude and handed me a Percodan I thanked him and swallowed it.

But I eased the guilt by reminding myself that the drugs were legal or, in the case of Quaaludes, had at one time been legal.

In the Santa Barbara hacienda, Brandy and me found Benzedrine and Dexedrine and old Quaaludes and Soma and some Dialose capsules that turned out to be a fecal softener.

Like all Elvis impersonators worth their Quaaludes and fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, he chose to give homage to the jelly-bellied, sideburned, rhinestone-jumpsuited Elvis, the one who sadly lost the vote for the commemorative stamp.

It was a very busy place in the 1970s and 1980s, the main draw being a secluded and unpatrolled airfield, upon which many tons of marijuana, Quaaludes, and cocaine were landed en route to the U.

This guy makes a lot of money in an important business, and he was telling me about his party over the weekend, with cocaine, amyl nitrate, Quaaludes, and dozens of bodies.

Then he went home, had a few drinks and used some Quaaludes, and that pushed him right around the bend.

Quaaludes and red wine and then the odd Preludin to pull out of the grandiose nosedive of the Quaaludes and red wine.

They were in a Ziploc bag, maybe two hundred capsules: Nembutals, Seconals, blue-and-orange Tuinals, Placidyls, Quaaludes, like colorful supplies for some exotic cottage industry.

She says that on the afternoon of August whatever-it-was, I stuffed her little girl with Quaaludes, right?