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Halcion

Halcion noun: brand name for triazolam.

Noun

Halcion (countable and uncountable, plural Halcions)

  1. Brand name for triazolam.
    • […]I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if...1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148

Forms of Halcion

pluralHalcions

Origin of Halcion

Marketing name, probably from halcyon.

Questions about Halcion

What does Halcion mean?
Halcion means brand name for triazolam.
What part of speech is Halcion?
Halcion is a noun.
What is the plural of Halcion?
The plural of Halcion is Halcions.

Words near Halcion in the dictionary

  1. halcarrah
  2. halcarrahs
  3. halcarras
  4. Halchidhoma
  5. halcinonide
  6. Halcion
  7. Halcomb
  8. Halcombs
  9. Halcrow
  10. halcyon
  11. halcyon day

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