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lettuce opium

lettuce opium noun: lactucarium.

Noun

lettuce opium (uncountable)

  1. Lactucarium.
    • I sleep fine, Frankie. Sometimes a little lettuce opium just to get me into it, but I don't feel like that you have to give me no happy endings here.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 528

Forms of lettuce opium

alternative formlettuce-opium

Questions about lettuce opium

What does lettuce opium mean?
Lettuce opium means lactucarium.
What part of speech is lettuce opium?
Lettuce opium is a noun.

Words near lettuce opium in the dictionary

  1. lettuce forks
  2. lettuce keeper
  3. lettuce keepers
  4. lettuce leaf
  5. lettuce leaves
  6. lettuce opium
  7. lettuce sea slug
  8. lettuce sea slugs
  9. lettuce-bird
  10. lettuce-birds
  11. lettuceless

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