lettuce opium

English

Alternative forms

• lettuce-opium

Noun

lettuce opium (uncountable)

1. Lactucarium.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 528:

     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.

See also

• wild lettuce