beam up
verbEtymology From the Star Trek franchise.
1
Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
2
Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction To be teleported, or to teleport oneself, in this manner.
3
To appear suddenly, as if by teleport.
4
Slang To get high on drugs, especially crack cocaine.
- Pookie: "They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty."1991, New Jack City:
- Crack cocaine done gave straight-up pimping a nosebleed in the ghetto. 'Specially when crack hoes be trickin for two or three dollars, just to get enough to beam up, how you gon charge a John a hundred or two hundred bucks?2004, Teddy Hayes, Blood Red Blues, →ISBN, page 75:
- Related terms
- transporter