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lude

[lood] Origin

lude

[lood]
noun Slang.

Origin:
1975–80; by shortening
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Lude is always a great word to know.
So is barracuda. Does it mean:
to refuse to serve at a bar or restaurant; to be thrown out of or forbidden from an establishment
a treacherous, greedy person
Etymonline
Word Origin & History

lude
slang shortening of quaalude, by 1973.
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Medical Dictionary

lude (l&oomacr;d)
n.
A pill or tablet that contains the drug methaqualone.

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Slang Dictionary

lude definition


  1. n.
    a capsule of Quaalude, a tranquilizer. (Drugs.) : I don't know what he gave me. Mary said it was a “lude” or something.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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