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plural tranqs
(slang) Clipping of tranquilizer. quotations
"I gave her a tranq," he said with anguish. "She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her."
1982, Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi
She needs you like she needs her tranqs / To tell her that the world is clean.
1992, Sisters of Mercy, Alice (song)
The cops were forced to call in reinforcements to shoot the zebra with tranquilizer darts in an effort to calm him down. Unfortunately, the tranqs did the opposite, setting the zebra off in a panic, as it ran into a nearby lake.
2016 March 29, N/A, “Escaped zebra drowns at golf course: Zebra gets tranqed, dies in Japan - TomoNews”, in TomoNews US (Usenet)
(slang) The veterinary analgesic drug xylazine, used as a street drug
third-person singular simple present tranqs, present participle tranqing, simple past and past participle tranqed
(slang, transitive) Clipping of tranquilize. quotations
He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.
2007, Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas, page 65
He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out. His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities. “Got him!” the man who had tranqed him shouted to his buddies.
2008, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind, page 144
(slang, intransitive) To use the drug called tranq.