Etymology

booty juice

Today it means: A sedative, usually haloperidol, used in psychiatric hospitals and administered through intramuscular injection. Full definition →

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The story

Mental hospital slang from booty ("the buttocks", referring to its typical place of injection) + juice ("any liquid resembling juice", referring to the sedative).

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