dream n.4
1. opium, morphine; thus dream beads, pellets of opium.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Sat. Eve. Post 13 Apr. in AS VI:2 132: dreams, n. Opium. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| (con. 1920s) Schnozzola 88: Eddie borrowed a hairpin, straightened it, and used it as a ‘yen-hock’, the needle upon which the supposed dream beads were toasted. | |
| Traffic In Narcotics 308: dreams. Opium pellets for chewing. | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | |
| Underground Dict. (1972). | |
| Jargon. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 8: Dreams — Opium. |
2. cocaine.
| et al. Recreational Drugs. | |
| ‘Gloss. of Drug Terms’ National Instit. Drug Abuse. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 8: Dream — Cocaine. |
In compounds
1. (US teen) an attractive member of the opposite sex.
 | Baltimore Sun 22 June Magazine 6/4: Dream dust . . . desirable boy or girl. |
2. (drugs, also dream powder) any narcotic in a powdered form.
| USA Confidential 27: The Italian government works hand in hand with Commies on the importation of the dream powder. | |
| ‘Look Me in the Eye, Boy!’ in Deadly Streets (1983) 159: You still on the dream-dust, Leon? |
3. attrib. use of sense 1.
| Web of the City (1983) 181: He was junkie cold. He was dream-dust miserable. |
(drugs) opium.
| Thes. Sl. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Traffic In Narcotics 307: dream gum. Opium. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 8: Dream gun [sic] — Opium. |
1. (US) a cigarette.
| Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) 1 Dec. 6/2: The audence detected the odor of cigarettes and an investigation showed that the prima donna was indulging in ‘dream sticks’. | |
| Evansville Press (IN) 9 Oct. 8/4: Ten-for-a-nickel and twenty for 15 cents cigarets are no more. The price of ‘dream sticks’ went up Tuesday. | |
| Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) 1 May 7/2: Dick Martin has a neat little machine that turns out ‘Dream Sticks’ in a jiffy. | |
| ‘Whitman College Sl.’ in AS XVIII:2 Apr. 153/2: dream stick. Cigarette. |
2. (US drugs) an opium pipe.
| Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 5 May 19/5: The Chinese rolled another pill, held it over the small alcohol lamp, and started the dream stick to working. | |
| ‘Argot of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 1 in AS XI:2 121/1: dream-stick. An opium pipe. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 8: Dream stick — Opium. |
3. (US drugs, also dream stuff) a marijuana cigarette.
| Long Beach Indep. (CA) 22 Mar. 1/2: Police [...] smashed a ring of marijuana peddlers which supplied the ‘dream sticks’ used at high school ‘reefer’ parties. | |
| Duke 34: ‘You ever smoke dream-stuff?’ ‘Charge?’ ‘Yeah.’. | |
| Miami News (FL) 26 July 5/5: Even the ‘Dream Sticks’ Soar as Inflation Trend Continues. The cost of marijuana cigarets [...] is on the upward trend. The price hike of ‘dream sticks’ is really startling. | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |
(US drugs) opium.
| ‘Chatter of Guns’ in Sat. Eve. Post 13 Apr.; list extracted in AS VI:2 (1930) 132: dream wax, n. Opium. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |
In phrases
see under sweet adj.1