Texas cocktail n.— «We use what’s known as the Texas cocktail, which is injections of three different drugs. The first drug that is injected is sodium pentothal and that, in this state, is the fatal dose. Once that dose is given, the inmate’s not...
euthanol n.— «An officer from the Berkeley Humane Society presented the City Council with a syringe intended to represent a dose of euthanol, the lethal drug used to destroy animals.» —“Animal Lovers Squawk Over Pet Ordinance” by Gregory Wesley in...
quinceañera n.— «There is no doubt that the Hispanic coming-of-age quinceañera is more popular, move lavish and, in subtle ways, more American than ever. Picture a souped-up debutante ball without the high-society trappings or a bat mitzvah with an...
heroic dose n. a quantity of a medical drug sufficient to endanger a person; (hence) a quantity of a recreational drug sufficient to achieve the maximum possible psychedelic or psychotropic effects; an excess of any substance or behavior. Editorial...
heroic dose n.— «One drop of it was fully as efficient as curiosity in killing a cat.…An early nineteenth century pharmacopoeia lists a tobacco enema. About the same time the surgeon and anatomist, Sir Ashley Cooper, recommended this in a heroic...
heroic dose
n.— «What may be an heroic dose for someone may be an “aesthetic” dose for another.» —Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Summer, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)