blue velvet

American  

noun

Slang.

1. a mixture of paregoric and Pyribenzamine taken by vein as an illicit drug.

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Example Sentences

The films she had worked on included “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “Henry & June,” “Amadeus,” “The Right Stuff,” “Backdraft” and “Blue Velvet.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Perhaps the most avant-garde filmmaker ever to make it big in Hollywood, David Lynch brought surrealism to the big screen in films including Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet.

From BBC

Filmmaker David Lynch, who created surreal shows and films such as “Twin Peaks,” “Mulholland Drive” and “Blue Velvet,” died Jan. 15 at age 78.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nevertheless, sifting through these can reveal surprising individual talents, as in the case of Mónica Mays at Blue Velvet.

From The Wall Street Journal

David Lynch, the co-creator of “Twin Peaks” and the writer and director of a string of films so uniquely and beautifully bizarre — “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” to name a few — that only the coining of the descriptor “Lynchian” could do justice in describing them, died at the age of 78, just months after the news of his emphysema diagnosis in August 2024.

From Salon