Seconal

English Etymology en secondary allyl; origin 1930s. Pronunciation en /ˈsɛkəˌnɔl/ /ˈsɛkəˌnɑl/ Noun ~ en pharmaceutical drug A barbiturate drug used as a sedative and hypnotic, a trade name of secobarbital. en 1952-10-13 Richard L. Williams ‘To sleep: perchance…’ Life (magazine) Life 33 15 3lIEAAAAMBAJ 110 Seconal Nearly every pharmaceutical house has its own brands, sold in tablets, solutions or brightly-colored capsules, on which its “detail men” keep doctors informed. Probably the most popular successors to Veronal are Seconal (“red birds” to the bootleg trade) and Nembutal (“yellow jackets”). en 1953 w:Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye (novel) The Long Goodbye New York Ballantine 1971 29 https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20140522/html.php In spite of the seconal he was eaten up by his nerves. His face was covered with sweat. en 1966 w:Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls (novel) Valley of the Dolls 227 https://archive.org/details/valleyofdolls0000jacq_w9t0/page/227/mode/1up Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve. en 1969 w:Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy’s Complaint https://archive.org/details/portnoyscomplain00roth_0 104 Vintage 1994 New York Doctor, they can stand on the window ledge and threaten to splatter themselves on the pavement below, they can pile the Seconal to the ceiling—I may have to live for weeks and weeks on end in terror of these marriage-bent girls throwing themselves beneath the subway train, but I simply cannot, I simply will not, enter into a contract to sleep with just one woman for the rest of my days. en w:Priscilla Presley; Sandra Harmon w:Elvis and Me 1985 Putnam 151 https://archive.org/details/elvismep00pres/page/151/mode/1up 978-0-399-12984-1 His horror of insomnia, compounded with a family history of compulsive worrying, caused him to down three or four Placidyls, Seconals, Quaaludes, or Tuinals almost every night—and often it was a combination of all four. 14 October 2001 w:Jason Burke Death of a princess https://web.archive.org/web/20140510112927/https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/oct/14/features.magazine47 Seconal is the commercial name of the barbiturate quinalbarbitone. Its generic name is secobarbital. Both Rohypnol and Seconal are physically addictive, and use of all three drugs rapidly builds up tolerance. Derived terms en Seconaled Anagrams en acelnos Celonas Celanos Lescano Canelos Escalon