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tees and blues

tees 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

Questions about tees and blues

What is tees and blues the alternative form of?
Tees and blues is the alternative form of Ts and blues.

Words near tees and blues in the dictionary

  1. teerut
  2. teeruts
  3. teerwa
  4. teerwas
  5. tees
  6. tees and blues
  7. tees off
  8. tees up
  9. Tees Valley
  10. Teesdale
  11. Teesdales

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