Meanings
present singular third person beams up · participle present beaming up · participle past beamed up · past beamed up
- transitiveliteratureTo teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
- intransitiveliteratureTo be teleported, or to teleport oneself, in this manner.
- intransitiveTo appear suddenly, as if by teleport.
- slangTo get high on drugs, especially crack cocaine.
Pookie: "They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty."
1991, New Jack City1 more example
Crack cocaine done gave straight-up pimping a nosebleed in the ghetto. 'Specially when crack hoes be trickin for two or three dollars, just to get enough to beam up, how you gon charge a John a hundred or two hundred bucks?
2004, Teddy Hayes, Blood Red Blues, →ISBN, page 75
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From the Star Trek franchise.
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