See lude in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Quaalude"
},
"expansion": "Apheretic form of Quaalude",
"name": "apheretic form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Apheretic form of Quaalude.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ludes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lude (plural ludes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
63,
68
],
[
72,
77
]
],
"ref": "2009 December 10, Dave Chernin & Charlie Day, “The Gang Reignites the Rivalry” (7:08 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 5, episode 12, spoken by Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito):",
"text": "“Dennis, these guys are badass shitheads. Oh, man. You got any ludes?” “Ludes? I don't think they make those anymore, man.” “Gum?” “We got Rita-rall.” “\"Rita-rall\"?” “Yeah.” “What's Rita-rall? Ooh, snortski. Oh, mmm... (snorting) Oh! Ooh, that's tasty stuff. Zap him again.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pill containing the drug methaqualone."
],
"id": "en-lude-en-noun-WhLiPysx",
"links": [
[
"pill",
"pill"
],
[
"methaqualone",
"methaqualone"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A pill containing the drug methaqualone."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-lude.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/En-au-lude.ogg/En-au-lude.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/En-au-lude.ogg"
}
],
"word": "lude"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Quaalude"
},
"expansion": "Apheretic form of Quaalude",
"name": "apheretic form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Apheretic form of Quaalude.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ludes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "luding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "luded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "luded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "'lude",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lude (third-person singular simple present ludes, present participle luding, simple past and past participle luded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "31 69",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 4 11 0 0 12 7 14 4 0 7 1 1 10 15 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To get high on Quaalude."
],
"id": "en-lude-en-verb-29JTirvU",
"links": [
[
"get high",
"get high"
],
[
"Quaalude",
"Quaalude"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, intransitive) To get high on Quaalude."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-lude.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/En-au-lude.ogg/En-au-lude.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/En-au-lude.ogg"
}
],
"word": "lude"
}
{
"categories": [
"English apheretic forms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 9 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Quaalude"
},
"expansion": "Apheretic form of Quaalude",
"name": "apheretic form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Apheretic form of Quaalude.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ludes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lude (plural ludes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
63,
68
],
[
72,
77
]
],
"ref": "2009 December 10, Dave Chernin & Charlie Day, “The Gang Reignites the Rivalry” (7:08 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 5, episode 12, spoken by Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito):",
"text": "“Dennis, these guys are badass shitheads. Oh, man. You got any ludes?” “Ludes? I don't think they make those anymore, man.” “Gum?” “We got Rita-rall.” “\"Rita-rall\"?” “Yeah.” “What's Rita-rall? Ooh, snortski. Oh, mmm... (snorting) Oh! Ooh, that's tasty stuff. Zap him again.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pill containing the drug methaqualone."
],
"links": [
[
"pill",
"pill"
],
[
"methaqualone",
"methaqualone"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A pill containing the drug methaqualone."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-lude.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/En-au-lude.ogg/En-au-lude.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/En-au-lude.ogg"
}
],
"word": "lude"
}
{
"categories": [
"English apheretic forms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 9 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Quaalude"
},
"expansion": "Apheretic form of Quaalude",
"name": "apheretic form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Apheretic form of Quaalude.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ludes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "luding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "luded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "luded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "'lude",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lude (third-person singular simple present ludes, present participle luding, simple past and past participle luded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"To get high on Quaalude."
],
"links": [
[
"get high",
"get high"
],
[
"Quaalude",
"Quaalude"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, intransitive) To get high on Quaalude."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-lude.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9d/En-au-lude.ogg/En-au-lude.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/En-au-lude.ogg"
}
],
"word": "lude"
}
Download raw JSONL data for lude meaning in English (3.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.