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lude

American  
[lood] / lud /

noun

Slang.
  1. Quaalude.


Etymology

Origin of lude

First recorded in 1975–80; by shortening

Example Sentences

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Then he took a mistress, Greta lude, a beautician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Summe swa deor lude remeð. summe þer graninde sikeð. summe þer reowliche gneȝeð his aȝene tunge.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph

"Hir gheyt vth ghemaket to dude Dat schackspil der eddelen lude Des bokes dichter het stephan."

From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by Caxton, William

Ac if þu him lest welde.     werende on worlde. lude and stille. his owene wille. hwanne cumeþ ealde.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph

The word "lude" appears twice and is left unchanged.

From Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light by Fresenborg, Bernard

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