downsies

Noun

1. Synonym of tranquilizers (“drugs used to reduce anxiety or tension”).
   • The Rolling Stones cut a record called “Mother’s Little Helpers.’[’] An innocuous title? You bet it was, but the lyrics revealed that “Mother’s Little Helpers” are the “upsies and downsies” that mom takes to get her...
   • Sylvia may not take drugs, but Kim was very into pills—upsies and downsies and in-betweensies. - 1971, David Freeman, “Sylvia the Hooker”, in U. S. Grant in the City and Other True Stories of Jugglers and Pluggers,...
   • Girls seek release through drinking and pills and dexies and upsies and downsies. Whatever. I haven’t had to. - 1973, Susan Hall, “Individual Entrepreneurs”, in Ladies of the Night (A Prairie House Book), New York,...

   Synonyms: tranquilizers

   Coordinate Terms: upsies