Halcion

English

Etymology

Marketing name, probably from halcyon.

Noun

Halcion (countable and uncountable, plural Halcions)

1. (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.