lettuce opium

noun

Lactucarium.

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Meanings

nounlettuce opium (uncountable)

alternative lettuce-opium

  1. uncountableLactucarium.

    I sleep fine, Frankie. Sometimes a little lettuce opium just to get me into it, but I don't feel like that you have to give me no happy endings here.

    2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 528

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
lactucarium
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lettuce opium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lettuce%20opium

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“lettuce opium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lettuce%20opium. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lettuce opium,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lettuce%20opium.

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