noun
Lucy
LOO-see
noun
1
Slang term for the drug LSD.
"They said the festival crowd was tripping on lucy all weekend."
2
The northern pike, a large predatory freshwater fish.
"He hooked a lucy near the reeds at the edge of the lake."
How to Use Lucy
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAs slang it means LSD; as a fishing term it means the northern pike. Also an extremely common female given name.
When to use it
The drug sense is informal slang; the pike sense is regional angling jargon.
Word Forms
lucies plural
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Etymology
The LSD slang sense comes from the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", long rumored (whether accurately or not) to be a coded reference to the drug.