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blue velvet

noun

, Slang.
  1. a mixture of paregoric and Pyribenzamine taken by vein as an illicit drug.


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The director of Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive has found a new way to bolster his unparalleled canon of weirdness.

His film work reveals as much: he commanded the screen in Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, and Blue Velvet.

But I do have Blue Velvet and The Big Lebowski ranked up there, and I can see a case for a Spielberg or two and a few others.

Blue Velvet (1986) Dennis Hopper does for the gas mask what Danny Boyle does for heroin and toilets.

She wears blue-velvet flats, and is keen on setting me straight about published reports that she likes to go shoe-shopping.

Her foot, thrust into a heel-less Tunisian slipper of blue velvet embroidered with seed pearls, beat the floor impatiently.

I put my impostor in a suit of blue velvet with a flowered waistcoat and stockings of pink.

She's religious—she had blue velvet Prayer-Books—and she's not as much religion, or anything else, in her than that table-leg.

In India it is quite the contrary; she looks like a huge pearl surrounded by diamonds, rolling on a blue velvet ground.

She brought out from her trunk a dark blue velvet suit and a cap of the same with a jaunty bird's wing on one side.

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