Christmas tree n.1
1. in drug uses [the multi-coloured pills that are reminiscent of a Christmas tree’s lights].
(a) a stimulant (deximal spansules).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 21: Horse, pot, bennies, redbirds, yellow jackets, Christmas trees, perrys, dexies, or rainbows. | |
| Snowblind (1978) 240: The most popular word is ups. Brain ticklers, browns, cartwheels, chalk, Christmas trees [...] are words of the sixties and are out of use now. | |
| Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Christmas tree — [...] amphetamine. |
(b) a depressant (butabarbital, Tuinal).
| ‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2 15: Christmas trees, n. A barbiturate in red and blue capsules. | |
| Thief’s Primer 110: Tuinal is what I like. Some people call them Christmas Trees [...] because they’re a kind of a green and a kind of a red – not true red and true green but the green and red they use at Christmastime. | |
| Faggots 301: You name it, somebody’s on it. [...] Christmas Tree. Mescalin. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 167: Barbiturates were identified in terms of their colour [...] Tuinal (amobarbital and secobarbital), rainbow, christmas tree. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Christmas tree — [...] depressant. |
(c) LSD.
| Bk of Jargon 337: Christmas tree: A type of LSD. |
(d) marijuana.
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Christmas tree — Marijuana. |
2. (US) a heavily over-made-up or over-dressed woman [she is ‘lit up like a Christmas tree’].
| [ | | ‘Hot Rod Lexicon’ in Hepster’s Dict. 1: Christmas tree – A car that is loaded with gadgets]. |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 42: Rainbow, color guard, christmas tree, Santa Claus [...] refer specifically to a person who wears too many colors. |