val

plural vals

1. countableinformaluncountableValium.

   and i must be on that list of people that need to get knocked over with a hammer 'cause vicodin and val don't knock me out.

   1997 May 29, Kate Sholl, “Re: MED: Pain relief in Neck?”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia (Usenet)

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   I would think though that whatever the reason for a panic attack valium would be great. I know that if my house was on fire and I was on 15mg of val It^([sic]) would take a lot more energy than I had, to panic. ;^)

   1998 December 29, rob [username], “Re: Depression and MS(leg/feet burning pain)”, in alt.support.mult-sclerosis (Usenet)

   I'm a medic and phenobarb is the primary drug for true seizures, but the OP states the cat presents seizure like behavior at the sound of her voice. I don't know where any of you are from, but we don't treat seizures with val.

   2002 June 28, FllSpdAhd1 [username], “Re: Valium?”, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav (Usenet)

plural Vals

1. A male given name, a short form of Valentine and Valerius.

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   And Publius Valerius became the baby's name, though it afterwards transpired that they had got hold of the inferior Cato. In 1890, however, when little Publius was nearly ten, the word 'chic' went out of fashion, and sobriety came in; Winifred began to have doubts. They were confirmed by little Publius himself, who returned from his first term at school complaining that life was a burden to him - they called him Pubby. Winifred - a woman of real decision - promptly changed his school and his name to Val, the Publius being dropped even as an initial.

   1920, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: In Chancery:I: Chapter 2

2. A female given name, a short form of Valerie and Valmai.

plural Vals

1. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of Valley girl.

   “Vals are everywhere,” Miss Zappa said the other afternoon in a telephone interview from the Zappas' Hollywood Hills home. She also reported that Vals are “jealous of Brooke Shields and secretly want to go to New York.”

   1982 September 15, Moon Zappa, quotee, “They're Clothes Crazy, Fer Sure; Valley Girls aren't just in California”, in The New York Times, →ISSN