Quaalude

quaalude English Alternative forms en quaalude Etymology Supposedly a en quiet Maalox interlude 1.en http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926386,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20081222021600/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926386,00.html 2008-12-20 1983-11-28 Dropping the Last 'Lude Time Pronunciation en /ˈkweɪluːd/ Proper noun en pharmaceutical drug A proprietary name for methaqualone. Noun A dose of this drug, sometimes taken recreationally. en methaqualone lude mandrake en 2013 Terence Winter The Wolf of Wall Street Leonardo DiCaprio Jordan Belfort 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. en 2017-09-30 Ross Douthat Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/opinion/hugh-hefner.html 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260119022056/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/opinion/hugh-hefner.html 19 January 2026 References Further reading methaqualone en genericized trademarks en Recreational drugs