Halcion
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Marketing name, probably from halcyon.
Noun
[edit]Halcion (countable and uncountable, plural Halcions)
- (pharmacology) Brand name for triazolam.
- 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148:
- […] I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if my life depended on it.