beam me up, Scotty! excl.
1. (US campus) an expression of the desire to be elsewhere; cit. 1978 is probably mis-quoted.
![]() | Campus Sl. Apr. 4: all right, Spock, beam us up! – exclamation of a need to get out of a party or any uncomfortable situation. | |
![]() | Boys from the Blackstuff [TV script] (1985) 273: (Chrissie glances up at the sky) Beam me up, Scotty. Beam me up. | ‘George’s last Ride’|
![]() | Vatican Bloodbath 26: ‘Do him!’ ordered Billy Boyne. Ryan O’Brian sighed. ‘Beam me up, Scotty,’ he said rolling his eyes to heaven. |
2. (US drugs) to smoke crack cocaine.
![]() | New Jack City [film script] When you’re smoking crack, they say that you're ‘beaming up to Scotty.’ You're going to another world. |
3. (drugs) as exhortation, give me some drugs! usu. crack cocaine [i.e. get me high adj.1 (3)].
![]() | Crackhouse 35: When you want to get high, you say, ‘Beam me up, Scotty’. | |
![]() | Candy 77: Your cocaine is 73% pure. That’s my job done. Apart from beam me up, Scotty. | |
![]() | Plainclothes Naked (2002) 185: I found it [i.e. some crack cocaine], I get the first taste. Beam me up, Scotty! |