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tease and blues

tease and blues is the alternative form of Ts and blues.

Meaning of Ts and blues

Noun

Ts and blues pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) The combination of the drugs pentazocine (an opioid analgesic) and tripelennamine (an antihistamine), used for recreational purposes due to its euphoric effect in the 1970s and 1980s.
    • […] was usually combined with the antihistamine tripelennamine (“Ts and Bs” or “Ts and Blues” pattern of combined intravenous drug abuse).1990, Martin W. Adler, Alan Cowan, editors, Testing and Evaluation of Drugs of Abuse (Modern Methods in Pharmacology; 6), Wiley-Liss, →ISBN, page 272
    Synonyms:
    Ts and Bs

Origin of tease and blues

From Ts and blues, with Ts respelled as tease.

Questions about tease and blues

What is tease and blues the alternative form of?
Tease and blues is the alternative form of Ts and blues.

Words near tease and blues in the dictionary

  1. teasable
  2. teasably
  3. Teasdale
  4. Teasdales
  5. tease
  6. tease and blues
  7. tease apart
  8. tease out
  9. teaseable
  10. teased
  11. teased apart

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