bull horrors n.2
1. (US) severe delirium tremens, usu. caused by drink, sometimes by cocaine.
Opiate Addiction 175: This condition is known in the vernacular as the ‘bull horrors,’ a type of persecutory delusions in which the victim imagines that ‘some one is after him’ . | ||
Inside Dope 81: A still worse condition is in America called ‘the bull horrors’, [...] that includes persecution mania. | ||
Honeymoon in Hell (1958) 38: He was at the stage now where twelve hours without a drink would give him the bull horrors, which are to the D.T.’s as a cyclone is to a zephyr. |
2. (US drugs) the aftereffects of excessive cocaine use.
Underground Dict. (1972) 41: bull horrors. [...] Aftereffects of using cocaine. |