ambien
/ˈæmbiˌɛn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.72 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Trade name of zolpidem, a medication most widely known as a treatment for insomnia.
Example Sentences
- "The city never sleeps / Better slip you an Ambien"
- "But Eckleburg is powerless against her, so I take an Ambien, and then, at 2 AM, the New York City Department of Transportation decides it's the perfect time to rip up the street."
- "Silicon Valley is not going to suddenly take an Ambien and stop innovating."
- "They ingest Ambien, Seroquel, LSD, Adderall, Oxycodone, cocaine, Flexeril, Percocet, psilocybin mushrooms and codeine."
- "This week’s find: a subreddit devoted to all the wonderfully deranged things people have done while under the influence of Ambien sleeping pills, or while experiencing a visit from the Ambien walrus, as redditors are known to call it."
- "Roseanne Barr said she was “Ambien tweeting” when she wrote racist remarks on Twitter […]. But on Wednesday the makers of Ambien, the sleep aid, were having none of it.[…] “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”"
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Ambien defense
Ambien walrus