dexie

dexie
n
a pill or capsule of Dexedrine, a trade-mark for an amphetamine (pep pill) fre-quently prescribed and abused in the 1950s and 1960s. Yellow pills of Dexe-drine were popular among English mods of the mid-1960s. Dexy's Midnight Run-ners, a phrase adopted as the name of a late 1970s white soul group, was an elab-orate nickname for the drug.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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