"dexedrine" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Brand name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dexedrines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dexedrine (countable and uncountable, plural dexedrines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "dexy"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Joan Didion, “A preface”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:",
          "text": "I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 53:",
          "text": "[…]—and then all soaring on—what?—acid, peyote, morning-glory seeds, which were very hell to choke down, billions of bilious seeds mulching out into sodden dandelions in your belly, bloated—but soaring!—or IT-290, or dexedrine, benzedrine, methedrine— Speed!—or speed and grass—[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 52:",
          "text": "Later I learned that the pills were Dexedrine, which Elvis had first discovered in the Army. A sergeant had given several men pills to help them stay awake while on guard duty.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brand name for dextroamphetamine."
      ],
      "id": "en-dexedrine-en-noun-tXI4Uu~l",
      "links": [
        [
          "dextroamphetamine",
          "dextroamphetamine"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Dexedrine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dexedrine"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dexy"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Brand name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dexedrines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Joan Didion, “A preface”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:",
          "text": "I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 53:",
          "text": "[…]—and then all soaring on—what?—acid, peyote, morning-glory seeds, which were very hell to choke down, billions of bilious seeds mulching out into sodden dandelions in your belly, bloated—but soaring!—or IT-290, or dexedrine, benzedrine, methedrine— Speed!—or speed and grass—[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 52:",
          "text": "Later I learned that the pills were Dexedrine, which Elvis had first discovered in the Army. A sergeant had given several men pills to help them stay awake while on guard duty.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brand name for dextroamphetamine."
      ],
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        [
          "dextroamphetamine",
          "dextroamphetamine"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Dexedrine"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dexedrine"
}